[nycbug-talk] using freebsd

[George Georgalis]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:06:53AM -0500, Brown, James (Jim) wrote:
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>How in the heck do I set PACKAGEROOT or whatever so I can pkg_add -r?
>
>the default:
>
>c12#  pkg_add -r vim
>Error: FTP Unable to get
>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/Lates
>t/vim.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>pkg_add: unable to fetch
>'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/Late
>st/vim.tgz' by URL
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>Hi-
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>I typically use PACKAGESITE instead.
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>
>Example from the FruitSalad Project (KDE on FreeBSD section):
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>3.3.1 Packages 
>i386 4-STABLE (kern.oslreldate: 490102) (Posted Sun Nov 08 05:00 CET 2004) 
>Packages: http://rabarber.fruitsalad.org/packages/3.3.1-final-2/4-STABLE 
>PACKAGESITE:
>http://rabarber.fruitsalad.org/packages/3.3.1-final-2/4-STABLE/Latest/
o

well I did read the man (contrary to off list suggestions), when
I set

PACKAGEROOT="ftp://ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org/"

pkg_add said:

fetch: ftp://ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org//pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.10-release/Latest/vim.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

so, I guess the problem was I had to "pkg_add -r vim5"

// George

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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE
http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george at galis.org