On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Francois Pussault wrote: > I use this : > # echo $PKG_PATH > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/sparc64/
In case someone googles that and would think it's a good idea to set the variable like so, here's a better alternative: echo 'export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.XX.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -m`/' >> ~/.profile for -release and -stable, or echo 'export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.XX.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/`uname -m`/' >> ~/.profile for guess what? -current of course! Even that your -current might not be exactly the same one these packages were built on. I hope nothing in the way will truncate it to 80 chars per line, sorry in advance; plus substitute XX for your favourite mirror, ftp.openbsd.org doesn't seem to have much bandwidth and IIRC neither did the first mirror in alphabetical order last time I tried -> http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html The quotes are there for a purpose, if you upgrade more systems at once manually, every step like "edit .profile for new system version" counts. So don't be lazy and find the backtick on your keyboard layout :-) To start a new discussion; why is it "OpenBSD/version/packages/arch" and not "OpenBSD/version/arch/packages", so the list of architectures is there twice? Historical reasons? I mean, compared to the mess some Linux distros have in their package management this already is a bless, but still... (it's probably irrelevant, so don't bother to start flamewars) -- Martin Pelikan
