From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 07:51:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9E4106567A; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 07:51:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCA38FC0A; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 07:51:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl135-103.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.254.103]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-4) with ESMTP id m667pDY0020980 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:51:19 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m667pDg9087563; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:51:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m667pCND087309; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:51:12 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Paul B. Mahol" References: <784966050807022128g6a6ebfebtc1f57c0da66779bc@mail.gmail.com> <20080703215537.6F3114504E@ptavv.es.net> <784966050807032126m69eedb98nf0ccaed548fc96ef@mail.gmail.com> <868wwhhmms.fsf@ds4.des.no> <486E14F2.3060906@psg.com> <3a142e750807040531k27938f0ay9bd9923ec57f3f1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:51:10 +0300 In-Reply-To: <3a142e750807040531k27938f0ay9bd9923ec57f3f1@mail.gmail.com> (Paul B. Mahol's message of "Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:31:51 +0200") Message-ID: <87y74fjvrl.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m667pDY0020980 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.759, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.64, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Randy Bush , Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Rob Lytle , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:51:30 -0000 On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:31:51 +0200, "Paul B. Mahol" wrote: > On 7/4/08, Randy Bush wrote: >>> This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.org which you >>> can install with 'pkg_add -r'. You can install them from any FTP >>> mirror, actually; just point PACKAGEROOT at the mirror: >> >> why isn't this stuff in the docs? oh, it is! silly me. is the problem >> that there are just too much doc or two little reading? >> >> > > It is in pkg_add(1), If you are talking about handbook only > PACKAGESITE is documented: should get fixed. Hi Paul, Can you please open a docs/* problem report for this? Feel free to add `keramida' to the `X-GNATS-Notify:' header. I'll try to add at least a reference to pkg_add(1) to read more about the `PACKAGEROOT' environment variable. I'm just getting back from a 8-10 day period of ${offline_world} stuff, but it would be a shame to lose the opportunity to document this, because it got hidden in the `noise' of the mailing lists.