[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you specify the -r flag? Without that, the PACKAGESITE
environment variable is note used ...
No, I didn't, because -- unless I am misunderstanding the description
of the -r flag -- that will cause pkg_add to look *only* on the FTP
site. I want it to use packages that have already been downloaded,
and use the FTP site only when a needed package is not available
locally. I'm trying to install an already-downloaded 10MB package
which has quite a few dependencies, several of which were already
fetched during a previous attempt.
IOW I want the equivalent of specifying the current directory,
followed by the FTP site, in PKG_PATH; but the colon in the URL
messes that up by looking like a pathname separator. If I tried
something like
setenv PKG_PATH
.:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/
it would look first in the current directory, then in a subdirectory
named ftp, and finally in a directory named //ftp.freebsd.org/...
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PKG_PATH is for directories only, it will not do FTP.
from man pkg_add:
" The value of the PKG_PATH is used if a given package cannot be found.
The environment variable should be a series of entries separated by
colons. Each entry consists of a directory name."
If I understand well, what you are asking is for pkg_add to:
- Search all local paths (in PKG_PATH) for a dependency
- If not found, use PACKAGESITE to download from a site.
As far as I know, pkg_add will only fetch dependencies recursively from
the Internet when used with -r but it will then ignore PKG_PATH. Seems
what you are asking cannot be done this way, but I might be wrong.
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