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Date:      Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:32:42 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster: $PACKAGESITE difference with pkg_add?
Message-ID:  <4D1E843A.8080404@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <30565803.post@talk.nabble.com>
References:  <30565803.post@talk.nabble.com>

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On 12/31/2010 15:46, Jakub Lach wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> According to portmaster man:
>
> portmaster will respect the  PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT
> (by default http://ftp.freebsd.org) variables.  portmaster attempts
> to use both of these variables in the same way that pkg_add(1) does.
>
> However, on PRERELEASE system portmaster will hunt for nonexistent
> PRERELEASE packages, while pkg_add will just use STABLE ones.
>
> Any thoughts?

Thanks, this was fixed in svn version r216866. It will be in the 
upcoming ports version 3.6.


Doug

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