Subject: Re: pkg_add with http
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
From: davide <d.zanon@infinito.it>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/06/2004 16:36:41
On Thursday 05 August 2004 16:02, you wrote:
> >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

Good idea, but I had some dependency problems...
Now it works fine.
>
> Mike

Thank you,
Davide