pkg_add problem

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Sep 30 10:05:43 PDT 2005


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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