Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:03:07 +0100 From: Tim Dettloff <dettloff@gmail.com> To: Richard Cadwalader <richard@howitsdone.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add looking in the wrong place Message-ID: <5b0444b5050110110339c7b3e8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200501061255.47218.richard@howitsdone.net> References: <200501050830.36906.richard@howitsdone.net> <200501050943.11320.richard@howitsdone.net> <84dead72050106094231b43492@mail.gmail.com> <200501061255.47218.richard@howitsdone.net>
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Try printenv See the printenv and your shells man page. The default shell for FreeBSD is tcsh. >Tim. On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:55:43 -0600, Richard Cadwalader <richard@howitsdone.net> wrote: > I don't mean to sound like a moron, I know that certainly most of you folks on > this mailing list have enough to do without holding my hand, but where does > one set the environment variables? > > I cvsup'd ports and the src tree, and I've installed stuff, it's just now that > I am having trouble...I install things by going to the ftp site and getting > the packages I need, but isn't there some config file somewhere that tells > pkg_add where to go? > > the output: > # sysctl kern.osreldate > kern.osreldate: 503101 > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:42, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > > gigaping# uname -a > > > FreeBSD gigaping.gigaping 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Mon Jan 3 > > > 11:25:50CST 2005 > > > gigaping@gigaping.gigaping:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GIGAPING i386 > > > gigaping# > > > > Please check that you don't have environment > > variables PACKAGESITE or PACKAGEROOT set. > > > > If these are not set, please check the output of 'sysctl > > kern.osreldate'. This should be a number between > > 503000 and 599000 if you are running 5.3-STABLE. > > > > If not, it is likely that your system may not have been > > updated using the recommended upgrade procedure in the > > Handbook. > > > > [snip] > > > > > what does all that mean up there? > > > > There is an explanation of uname's output in its manual > > page (man uname). > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > Richard Cadwalader > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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