Hi All, I'm trying out FreeBSD again after getting tired of the need to constantly update my Gentoo systems, or fall into upgrade dependency hell. I'd like to be a good netizen and save Pacific bandwidth by using an Australian package mirror.
But how to do it is not obvious to me. I've looked at the list of FreeBSD mirror sites - that's easy to find. I *think* the answer might be to either change or add to the existing FreeBSD.conf file in /etc/pkg, but there's no clue as to the correct format of the package URL. I'm not even sure if the new pkgng stuff *allows* using a repository other than the default FreeBSD one ??
I *did* try setting PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT, but as far as I can see these are ignored by the new pkg system (the -d option didn't give any clue as to where the packages were being fetched from, and using tcpdump showed me that pkg was using pkg0.isc.freebsd.org.http (149.20.53.28). And "Yes, Sir Dice, I did read Section 5.4 of the Handbook" as well as Googling, but couldn't find anything relevant ).
Thanks in advance for any help, and Regards,
Rob.
But how to do it is not obvious to me. I've looked at the list of FreeBSD mirror sites - that's easy to find. I *think* the answer might be to either change or add to the existing FreeBSD.conf file in /etc/pkg, but there's no clue as to the correct format of the package URL. I'm not even sure if the new pkgng stuff *allows* using a repository other than the default FreeBSD one ??
I *did* try setting PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT, but as far as I can see these are ignored by the new pkg system (the -d option didn't give any clue as to where the packages were being fetched from, and using tcpdump showed me that pkg was using pkg0.isc.freebsd.org.http (149.20.53.28). And "Yes, Sir Dice, I did read Section 5.4 of the Handbook" as well as Googling, but couldn't find anything relevant ).
Thanks in advance for any help, and Regards,
Rob.