From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 7 18:30:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043F716A418 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916AA13C4D5 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so576185ika for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:30:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=t9XJ1q7n60Oj974SXkC/7A0mFg5IjIJ9ibBdWPpcNc0Utsq2MgpSChkPbTMoCFsOeHsDIY8zirddCnqTI1TKskgKeTVVDttTisZw+SMx0rn27NfgMnFoeN/mu9qM13TkWJAFPgvG0svAmjNviWmkKBIhYaCETi9td4xI49AzQQc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=nAeXzS24x9RvU+TEw8ndK9vIgzYBcKZxV3nmoHFXcKqzKvaU3tIm2pLmBqHnxE0btK/fznkyEWGBC4u+olRB/k7sjqFXKDO4pow3+MxN5UablM3WMyyBRZ/jaAMI21d9PLX9465w6MmzIIkRUkDj9fPSodtGXVT+zJSHTvjEIVY= Received: by 10.78.185.15 with SMTP id i15mr1910328huf.1186511444941; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.25.12 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90708071130w30fb687bu3cce040ec21a889@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:30:44 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Jonathan Horne" In-Reply-To: <200708071328.34856.freebsd@dfwlp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90708071015t611011cft8d69e37597f71a80@mail.gmail.com> <20070807173936.GA55968@rot26.obsecurity.org> <200708071328.34856.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2986570466952795 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add -r from 6-stable instead of 6.2-release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:30:48 -0000 I think I was missing the '/latest'. Thanks for the example. Sometimes that's key. Steve On 8/7/07, Jonathan Horne 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