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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:27:13 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add main.c pkg_add.1
Message-ID:  <20010213122712.M12821@london.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200102130949.f1D9nKS58937@freefall.freebsd.org>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:49:19AM -0800
References:  <200102130949.f1D9nKS58937@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:49:19AM -0800, David E. O'Brien wrote:
>   Log:
>   In light of the dismal transfer times from ftp.FreeBSD.org, add a new
>   `PACKAGEROOT' env var which you would set to a proper mirror of
>   ftp.FreeBSD.org (say "export PACKAGEROOT=ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org"), to
>   fetch from an alternate place.  This is easier to use than `PACKAGESITE'
>   for true mirrors, and can be used in your dot files across all versions
>   of FreeBSD.

Thanks!  I hope you plan on MFC'ing this ASAP!  :)

-- 
wca


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