On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:21:17AM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote: > On two OpenBSD 4.2 systems I have a (master) system that contains two > repositories - one of regular packages and one of packages derived from > ports. On the client (slave) system I have a script with a PKG_PATH > containing both repositories: > > PKG_PATH_LAN1=ftp://$MASTER/$VERSION/packages/ > PKG_PATH_LAN2=ftp://$MASTER/$VERSION/packages/by_port/i386/all/ > PKG_PATH=$PKG_PATH_LAN1:$PKG_PATH_LAN2 > > However the second one (PKG_PATH_LAN2) is never consulted. If I remove > the first one then packages are found and installed with no problem. > > Why is this happening?
Because it's designed that way. The second entry is only consulted if a matching package is not found in the first repository. It works like a linker path: pkg_add only looks at entries while it did not find a suitable candidate. The intention is that you should put your preferred repository at the front, and less wanted stuff later: if pkg_add finds something in the preferred repository, it won't even look at the rest.
