Setenv PACKAGESITE thepathtoftp, in boot time how to do it?

Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 12:18:28 UTC 2011


you may want to define the PACKAGESITE variable in the .cshrc file in your
$HOME;


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Edgar Rodolfo <cybernautape at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys, currently i have a machine with freebsd 9 rc2, for default
> when i try to use pkg_add -r wget, for example, i can not install
> because the path is
> freebsd# pkg_add -r xscreensaver
> Error: Unable to get
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/Latest/xscreensaver.tbz
> :
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> pkg_add: unable to fetch
> '
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-current/Latest/xscreensaver.tbz
> '
> by URL
>
> but i put :
> freebsd# setenv PACKAGESITE
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/
>
> freebsd# pkg_add -r xscreensaver
>         Fetching
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/xscreensaver.tbz.
> ..
> Done.
>
> it works, pero i want to use for default, without put again it, when
> the machine reboot
> and i want to use again pkg i am puting the path manually :(, what is
> the file when i should put the path? to use pkg_add -r package?,
> without put again PACKAGESITE?, thank in advance!
>
>
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