On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:29:29PM -0400, Juan Miscaro wrote: > I've had this problem for a long time (over many OpenBSD releases). > > The pkg_add man page (for 4.5) states: > > "If a given package name cannot be found, the directories named by ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > PKG_PATH are searched. It should contain a series > of entries separated by colons. Each entry consists of a directory > name. URL schemes such as FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, or SCP are also > appropriate." > > On a client machine: > > PKG_PATH=http://$HTTP_MASTER/:http://$HTTP_MASTER/by_port/i386/all/ > > My master server serves up normal packages and those packages compiled > from ports. > > When I do this only the first component is searched. I have to do a > second package update run with PKG_PATH pointing directly to the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > second component for the "ports packages" to be seen. > > Why is this?
did you give pkg_add a package name? -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
