Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry
I started flame war
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Sun Jul 6 08:00:50 UTC 2008
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:51:10 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:31:51 +0200, "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/4/08, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>>>> This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.org which you
>>>> can install with 'pkg_add -r'. You can install them from any FTP
>>>> mirror, actually; just point PACKAGEROOT at the mirror:
>>>
>>> why isn't this stuff in the docs? oh, it is! silly me. is the problem
>>> that there are just too much doc or two little reading?
>>>
>>> </sarcasm>
>>
>> It is in pkg_add(1), If you are talking about handbook only
>> PACKAGESITE is documented: should get fixed.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Can you please open a docs/* problem report for this? Feel free to add
> `keramida' to the `X-GNATS-Notify:' header. I'll try to add at least a
> reference to pkg_add(1) to read more about the `PACKAGEROOT' environment
> variable.
Nevermind, that was easy. I just opened a PR for it...
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