On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen L. Palmer wrote: > I sent this to the list about a week ago. The only response so far, was from > someone else also having directory path issues with pkg_fetch. Is this > someting documented somewhere? If so, would someone please send me a pointer > on how to correct this behaviour? > > Stephen L. Palmer > > > ======================================================== > It seems that 'portupgrade -P' won't ever get a package, so it builds from > source every time. > > On investigation, it seems that pkg_fetch is getting the directory path > wrong. > > In the example below, the correct path would have included > 'packages-4-stable', not 'packages-4.6-stable', at least that's how the > directory structure on the ftp sites are.
You can fix this by editing /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf and inserting the following environment variable setting: ENV['PACKAGES'] ||= '/export/freebsd/packages-4-stable' You'll notice that the default setting (shown in a comment) is messed up in precisely the way you mention. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Turning coffee into software since 1990. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message