PACKAGESITE

N. Raghavendra raghu at mri.ernet.in
Sun Jul 13 09:26:18 UTC 2008


At 2008-07-13T01:33:18-07:00, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:

> IOW I want the equivalent of specifying the current directory,
> followed by the FTP site, in PKG_PATH;

AFAIK, in FreeBSD, the entries in PKG_PATH must be directories, not
URLs.

(NetBSD and OpenBSD seem to allow URLs in that variable:

  http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_add

  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add )

Raghavendra.

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