Re: PKG_PATH to pkgsrc collection

[Charles Brown <obigiankenobi%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thank you very much Toru, I find this info very usefull.

2012/2/10 Toru Nishimura <locore64%alkyltechnology.com@localhost>:
> I was asked about howto run pkgsrc installation for
> NetBSD/sandpoint lately.  As sandpoint has been
> gathering attentions from new comers, I write the way
> to fetch precomplied pkgsrc collection.
>
> An example to install samba suite;
>
> # export
> PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/powerpc/5.0/All
> # /usr/sbin/pkg_add 'samba-3*'
>
> Version mismatch warning is neglectable.  It'd ok as well a choosing newer
> set of collection.  After a fresh installation for NAS, the above brings the
> automatic configuration as follows;
>
> # /usr/sbin/pkg_info
> perl-5.10.1nb1      Practical Extraction and Report Language
> readline-6.1        GNU library that can recall and edit previous input
> popt-1.15           Command line option parsing library
> samba-3.3.12nb1     SMB/CIFS protocol server suite
>
> http://pkgsrc.se provides comprehensive resources about the upto date
> collection.
>
> Toru Nishimura / ALKYL Technology