pkg_add looking in the wrong place

[Tim Dettloff]

Try
 printenv
See the printenv and your shells man page. The default shell for
FreeBSD is tcsh.

>Tim.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:55:43 -0600, Richard Cadwalader
<richard at howitsdone.net> wrote:
> I don't mean to sound like a moron, I know that certainly most of you folks on
> this mailing list have enough to do without holding my hand, but where does
> one set the environment variables?
> 
> I cvsup'd ports and the src tree, and I've installed stuff, it's just now that
> I am having trouble...I install things by going to the ftp site and getting
> the packages I need, but isn't there some config file somewhere that tells
> pkg_add where to go?
> 
> the output:
> # sysctl kern.osreldate
> kern.osreldate: 503101
> 
> On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:42, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> > > gigaping# uname -a
> > > FreeBSD gigaping.gigaping 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Mon Jan  3
> > > 11:25:50CST 2005
> > > gigaping at gigaping.gigaping:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GIGAPING  i386
> > > gigaping#
> >
> > Please check that you don't have environment
> > variables PACKAGESITE or PACKAGEROOT set.
> >
> > If these are not set, please check the output of 'sysctl
> > kern.osreldate'.   This should be a number between
> > 503000 and 599000 if you are running 5.3-STABLE.
> >
> > If not, it is likely that your system may not have been
> > updated using the recommended upgrade procedure in the
> > Handbook.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > what does all that mean up there?
> >
> > There is an explanation of uname's output in its manual
> > page (man uname).
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