Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:21:45 +0930 From: Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about packages and ports Message-ID: <1120542705.57575.20.camel@au.dyndns.ws> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a05062711257a88c0b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <42C03E86.6090509@calarts.edu> <ef10de9a05062711257a88c0b3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:25 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On a similar note can someone remind me how to set the remote package
> site for pkg_add and portupgrade -P? I remember it had something to do
> with setenv but don't remember the variable it uses and I've never
> used the portupgrade -P option before.
It requires a bit of rtfm it seems...
$ man -P /bin/cat pkg_add | grep --context=2 -- "-r"
what you are doing!
-r Use the remote fetching feature. This will determine the appro-
priate objformat and release and then fetch and install the pack-
age.
--
The environment variable PACKAGEROOT specifies an alternate location for
pkg_add to fetch from. The fetch URL is built using this environment
variable and the automatic directory logic that pkg_add uses when the -r
option is invoked. An example setting would be "ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org".
The environment variable PACKAGESITE specifies an alternate location for
pkg_add to fetch from. This variable subverts the automatic directory
logic that pkg_add uses when the -r option is invoked. Thus it should be
a complete URL to the remote package file(s).
$
( - By the way, if anyone knows a simpler way of achieving that man/grep
combination, please tell!)
I couldn't find any documented reference as to where to put the env
setting, so I presume I must have either stumbled upon it while browsing
pkgtools.conf or seen it in an answer here or on a web page somewhere...
$ grep --context=2 PACKAGEROOT /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
# Equivalent to:
# sprintf('%s/pub/FreeBSD/ports/%s/packages-%s/',
# root || ENV['PACKAGEROOT'] || 'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org',
# OS_PLATFORM, OS_PKGBRANCH)
#
--
# ENV['PKG_FETCH'] = "curl '%s' -o '%s'"
# ENV['PKG_FETCH'] = 'false' # never fetch packages from a remote site
# ENV['PACKAGEROOT'] = 'ftp://ftpN.XX.FreeBSD.org'
ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/usr/ports'
ENV['PACKAGES'] ||= ENV['PORTSDIR'] + '/packages'
ENV['PKG_PATH'] ||= ENV['PACKAGES'] + '/All'
# 20040210 ws - added PACKAGEROOT
ENV['PACKAGEROOT'] = 'ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org'
# SANITY_CHECK: boolean (default: true)
$
You probably worked it out already but I thought this one was worthwhile
to toss in to the archives, and perhaps prompt someone to contemplate a
revision for the handbook.
hth
Wayne
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