On 2018-09-16, Solène Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2018-09-16 03:33, Michael Ayres a écrit : >> Thanks to everyone who has replied in helping me. I have read up on >> the man pages and I understand what I need; it is: >> >> 1) I want to install some packages on OpenBSD 6.0 which I have >> operational on a Parallels VM on my precious MacBookPro High Sierra. > > are you using 6.0? If so, it's no longer supported and packages are not > available anymore.
Correct it's no longer supported, though packages are available at some mirrors (especially ftp.eu.openbsd.org). >> 2) I want to set a environmental variable PKG_PATH to the ftp site to >> get packages. >> 2.a) I am trying to set it to >> https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/packages/i386/ 6.3 packages don't work on 6.0. >> <https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/packages/i386/>, which has an >> index of packages I might want to get. I will later put that >> PKG_PATH in the start up file so it is always set each time I boot up >> OpenBSD. > > Are you using i386 architecture in your VM? > >> 3) My PKG_PATH string [ >> https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/packages/i386/ >> <https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.3/packages/i386/> ] does not >> seem to work. An example I refer to includes some wild cards, “%”, >> which I can’t seem to get right.k The example I am working from is at: >> https://linux-audit.com/updating-all-openbsd-packages-with-pkg_add/ >> <https://linux-audit.com/updating-all-openbsd-packages-with-pkg_add/> >> and one example it uses is passing a variable for name and arch -s, >> which I have not set. > > http://man.openbsd.org/installurl > > https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD is a right content for the file > >> >> >> 4) What is a correct string i should use to set my PKG_PATH variable >> to get packages from location at 2a above? >> > > use /etc/installurl instead of PKG_PATH 6.0 used /etc/pkg.conf, needs to be 6.1+ for /etc/installurl. PKG_PATH works with both,
