Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:30:44 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add -r from 6-stable instead of 6.2-release Message-ID: <539c60b90708071130w30fb687bu3cce040ec21a889@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200708071328.34856.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <539c60b90708071015t611011cft8d69e37597f71a80@mail.gmail.com> <20070807173936.GA55968@rot26.obsecurity.org> <200708071328.34856.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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I think I was missing the '/latest'. Thanks for the example. Sometimes that's key. Steve On 8/7/07, Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2007 12:39:36 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:15:11AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > > occasionally I feel like a total idiot asking a really dumb question, > > > but I'm pretty much out of ideas and I've wasted hours messing with > > > PKGROOT, changing the 'options' in sysinstall, and I can't seem to get > > > things I can see right in 6-stable. I'd just fetch it myself, but it > > > has about 100 dependancies... > > > > See pkg_add(1). PACKAGESITE is probably what you want. > > > > Kris > > ive used PACKAGESITE recently as well, i used it like this: > > setenv PACKAGESITE > ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/ > > you have to specify it as far as the directory you want it to pull the files > from. ../All/ would also be acceptable. > > now that im about to click send, i actually cant recall if i specified the > trailing slash or not... so be prepared to reset and try again. > > good luck, > -- > Jonathan Horne > http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org > freebsd@dfwlp.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089
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