how do I change ftp site pkg_add -r uses

[fbsd_user]

I use whatever shell is the default for new installs.
I have done nothing to change the default shell for the root
account.

Echo $PACKAGEROOT      returns nothing

setenv  PACKAGEROOT 'ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org'  worked for me

then Echo $PACKAGEROOT      returns what the setenv just did

This only stays enabled for the duration of your login session.
Edit /root/.cshrc  and add the above setenv statement  to make this
permanent

Pkg_add -r  defaults to using this site 'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org'

It happens to be the master ftp site from which all the other mirror
sites download from. This site is frozen when the ports collection
is being update in preparation for the next stable production
release. right now 5.2 is being prepared.

When ever pkg_add -r tells you file not found, it's time to setenv
like above and try different ftp servers just by changing the ftpx
number from 1 to 13 until you find one working.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Lowell
Gilbert
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:56 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how do I change ftp site pkg_add -r uses

top-post.  don't Please
<http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/T/top-post.html>

  > There's an environment variable described in the manual page for
  > pkg_add which claims to do that.

> Yes I read that, but it does not say how to display current
setting
> or how to change it.

To see the current setting, you just use the program and it tells
you
where it's going.  To change it, you set the variable to a different
value in your environment.

How you set an environment variable depends on what shell you use,
but
for sh-style shells, the example from the manual page would be

 # PACKAGEROOT='ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org'
 # export PACKAGEROOT

Please read the Handbook section on "Shells".
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/shells.htm
l
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