[geeks] freebsd and package tools

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 18:18 , Michael-John Turner wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:37:02PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Does anyone know where this URL is generated and what to change so  
>> that it
>> will fetch packages from packages-7.0-release instead?
>
> I don't have access to a FreeBSD system at the moment, but you used  
> to be
> able to default the master site in /etc/make.conf. Setting PACKAGEROOT
> and/or PACKAGESITE there should do it.

Doesn't help.

PACKAGEROOT just gives the base site to start with.  pkg_add uses  
internal logic to compute the full URL unless you set PACKAGESITE in  
your shell.

I can't do that in our situation, so that's why I'm trying to figure  
out what pkg_add uses to determine the URL, so I can change that.

I'm probably going to read through the pkg_add source code and see if  
I can figure out what it uses to determine the release name.

Hopefully it isn't too complicated.


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Shannon Hendrix
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