Re: pkg_add problem

From: eoghan (freebsd_at_redry.net)
Date: 09/30/05

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To: Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com>

    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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