pkg_add -r could be better?

[Sean McAfee]

On 10/28/10 18:57, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/28/10 22:07, Sean McAfee wrote:
>> Why are you using -r (which fetches the default packages from
>> freebsd.org/mirrors) in conjunction with custom packages?
>
> My intention is to serve them to multiple systems from a single FTP/HTTP server.
> I set PACKAGEROOT/PACKAGESITE to override the default mirror selection.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Aragon

Gotcha - I knew I was missing something.

If NFS is an option, I manage custom packages for releng and it works exactly as 
expected using argument-less pkg_add or 'portupgrade -PP'.

There is a small caveat - there are still difficulties with conflicting ports 
options.  For example, there's no way to simultaneously provide both vanilla PHP 
and PHP-with-Apache-module packages.

-- 
Sean McAfee
Senior Systems Engineer