Brad, THANKS! That works great! On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:44 AM Brad Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ronald Georgia <[email protected]> writes: > > > All, > > I saw the email about Local repo, which prompted me to ask my question. > > I am on 9.0_RC1 building packages with pkg_comp (thank you Bob Nestor > > for all your help). All my "built" packages are in > > /build/pkgsrc/packages/All. My repository.conf points there and i have > > had no problems pkgin in 'whatever'. I want to make that available to > > other computers on my network. For example, I have a Lenovo X200 that > > I will install 9.0_RC1. I would like to point to my "personal" repo in > > order to pkgin in packages. > > > > My question is, how do I do that? Do I need my "build box" to be an > > ftp server? or do I spin up a web server? Is there info on how to do > > that? > > > > Can I use my github repository? > > > > Any hints or links will be appreciated. > > Might be as simple as putting this in your /etc/inetd.conf on the system > with the artifacts.... the httpd server that comes with the OS works > well enough: > > http stream tcp nowait:600 _httpd /usr/libexec/httpd > httpd -X /build/pkgsrc/packages/All > > Then you can use 'http://whatever.the.above.system.is' as the URL. > > I do this with pkg_add (don't use pkgin).... > > > > > -- > Brad Spencer - [email protected] - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
-- Ron Georgia “90% of my problems are due to ignorance, the other 10% is because I just don’t know any better.”
