Subject: Re: tracking freebsd/openbsd pkg_?
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/28/2003 13:41:28
William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com> writes:
> > $ export
> > PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<your_version>/<your_arch
> >/
> >
> > And later:
> >
> > $ pkg_add <your_package>
> >
> Gosh, exactly where do you find that in the documentation?!?! Not in:
> http://netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html
0 ~% man pkg_add | grep PKG_PATH
named by the PKG_PATH environment variable. Any dependencies re-
The value of the PKG_PATH is used if a given package can't be found, it's
ing a URL. The URL can be put into an environment variable, PKG_PATH.
# export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/i386/All
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