Subject: Re: pkg_add with http
To: None <d.zanon@infinito.it>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/05/2004 10:02:16
>Hi.
>I am wondering if there is a way to install binary packages
>using http instead of ftp.
<snip>
>starting deinit...).
>Later I found Hubert Feyrer's binary packages on Regensburg
>  University's website. They are much more up-to-date than
>those on the official netbsd.org ftp, but the only supported 
>protocol is http, and pkg_add refuses to work with PKG_PATH set to 
>Feyrer's site.

Easy solution. Download the file. Then pkg_add path/to/where/you/downloaded/it

Mike
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