Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 17:41:27 +0600 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: pkg_add from FTP repositary Message-ID: <352A10E7.7DF57494@urc.ac.ru>
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Hi All. I'm installing FreeBSD packages to my home computer from an FTP archive at my office. (It is faster to download binaries than to download and compile sources with my home processor and link speeds). I'm using a URL as a parameter for pkg_add. But then I cannot automatically install the packages which the first one depends on. PKG_PATH is used only for local files. Of course, it is correct, because searching files in FTP site is expensive. But could pkg_add have a last resort option for trying to get a package from some URL? For example, it could have a -<letter> <URL-path> option. If it has not found a package in PKG_PATH, it prepends a <URL-path> to the package name, and does the last try... Or an environment variable instead of an option. Comments? -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, Joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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