Re: pkg_add problem

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:05:40 -0400
To: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>

    On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:15PM +0100, eoghan wrote:
    > 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.

    Show us the error, it can't be precisely the same one since you
    changed the environment variable.

    > I have checked the ftp site and
    > its there. So im not sure what I need to do?

    Kris

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