how do I change ftp site pkg_add -r uses

[Lowell Gilbert]

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  > There's an environment variable described in the manual page for
  > pkg_add which claims to do that.

> Yes I read that, but it does not say how to display current setting
> or how to change it.

To see the current setting, you just use the program and it tells you
where it's going.  To change it, you set the variable to a different
value in your environment.  

How you set an environment variable depends on what shell you use, but
for sh-style shells, the example from the manual page would be 

 # PACKAGEROOT='ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org'
 # export PACKAGEROOT

Please read the Handbook section on "Shells".
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/shells.html