Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:00:15 +0100 From: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> To: Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add problem Message-ID: <08C61163-6D0C-4C30-ABC7-F5999FAD8E1B@redry.net> In-Reply-To: <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com> References: <AD7E3186-659A-48C2-9B84-5AE6BB752064@redry.net> <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com>
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On 30 Sep 2005, at 15:30, Josh Ockert wrote: > Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be > to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had you > tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't exist > under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would > have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for > packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment > variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the > archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the > man page. > > > My recommendation would be: > o Set PACKAGESITE to: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/ > o pkg_add -rf portupgrade > o portupgrade -arfP Ok thanks. I have done this... setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ packages-5-stable/ and im still getting the same error. I have checked the ftp site and its there. So im not sure what I need to do? Eoghan
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