Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 00:27:05 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concern over ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105040022220.19529-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20010504002030.U25642@futuresouth.com>
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On Fri, 4 May 2001, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: :ftp2, and frob the Makefile. pkg_add would have likely required me to :find and download the package file manually, or frob some arguments to it :that I can never quite manage to understand. PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-current/\ Latest/ pkg_add -r or something close, if you're not using -current, or i386. I do have to say that I figured out the option from the manpage, and the syntax with strings(1). strings(1) output is not very good documentation. David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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