Miroslav Lachman wrote: > I don't know if it is well known / documented somewhere in portmaster, > but after debugging, I realized that pkg_add on FreeBSD 6.3 has no long > options
This is why all of the ports tools should be in the ports tree. :) I just added the fix to the svn version of portmaster, if you can confirm that it works I'll add it to the port immediately. I was not aware of this issue, and apparently you're the first person to test package support on a release this old. Thank you, both for the testing and the bug report. > And one question - is it really mandatory to use > --local-packagedir=/usr/ports/packages if I want to install locally > available packages from standard path /usr/local/packages/All? Yes. > Shouldn't it be default behavior? IMO, no. I think that the vast majority of FreeBSD users just want to be able to fetch packages and have them installed. > Without --local-packagedir portmaster is trying to fetch it from FTP: > "Package and/or archive not found at: > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.3-release/lang/"; > and doesn't look at the local directory: > "There is no valid package to install, building port instead" This is the desired behavior. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
