pkg_add ignoring PKG_PATH!

Tom Hines tom_hines at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 14 21:40:27 PDT 2003


--- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 08:28:52PM -0700, Tom Hines
> wrote:
> 
> > cp838536-b# set PKG_PATH=/usr/ports/packages/All
> 
> Set it to /usr/ports/packages/ instead; the
> subdirectories are
> automatically appended by pkg_add according to the
> canonical structure
> (see the layout of the package directories on the
> ftp site).
> 
> Kris

cp838536-b# set PKG_PATH=/usr/ports/packages
cp838536-b# pkg_add -n ispell-3.2.06_3.tgz
pkg_add: can't stat package file 'ispell-3.2.06_3.tgz'
pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed
cp838536-b# set PKG_PATH=/usr/ports/packages/
cp838536-b# pkg_add -n ispell-3.2.06_3.tgz
pkg_add: can't stat package file 'ispell-3.2.06_3.tgz'
pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed
cp838536-b# echo $PKG_PATH
/usr/ports/packages/

cp838536-b# uname -a
FreeBSD cp838536-b 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0:
Sun Apr 13 01:06:43 EDT 2003    
tom at cp838536-b:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i38


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