Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:06:24 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Subject: Re: portinstall vs. pkg_add questions Message-ID: <200409071106.29810.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200409070911.43483.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> References: <200409070911.43483.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
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--nextPart4572061.xMoCUSBRLV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 07 September 2004 09:11, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > I'm playing around with RELENG_5. > > I'd like to install binary packages instead of using ports (the machine is > slow). > > First bump. "pkg_add -r" looks in > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.. ../packages-5.3-release/", which doesn't exist.= =2E. > yet. And I failed to figure out how to change the default site to some > mirror and path to ".../packages-5-current/", which I figure would be fine > for recently updated RELENG_5 (aka BETA1). setenv PACKAGESITE=20 ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/Latest/ > Reading the=20 > man-pages I was pointed toward pkg_fetch, which in turn stated I just nee= ded=20 > to change som ENV-variables. I tried changing several, but portinstall ke= pt=20 > using the default. Finally I figured out that I need to set the variables= in=20 > pkgtools.conf and not in the shell-prompts. The variables are environent variables either way, they should work just fi= ne=20 setting them from the shell, too. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart4572061.xMoCUSBRLV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBPXoVXhc68WspdLARAowuAJ0cP9msD4ymaXL0cRdJiY4cAF00YQCcDmP5 DRP8joLZOAcjSCTALcckWTo= =7Hrf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4572061.xMoCUSBRLV--
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