pkg_add problem
eoghan
freebsd at redry.net
Fri Sep 30 09:00:35 PDT 2005
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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