Package environment errors

sossego

sossego

Retired from the forums
Variables set as $USER and root
Code: 
set env PACKAGESITE=http://freebsd-powerpc-9-0-current-updated-packages.googlecode.com/files/
Code: 
set env PACKAGEROOT=http://freebsd-powerpc-9-0-current-updated-packages.googlecode.com/files/
Code: 
pkg_add firefox-3.6.18,1
pkg_add:can't stat package file 'firefox-3.6.18,1'
 
You're installing from the local machine. Use the -r option to tell it to fetch from the remote repository.

I'm not sure it will work though because this GoogleCode website doesn't seem to have the proper directory hierarchy. But I might be wrong about this requirement.
 
I've just asked the googlecode project about a solution.
Code: 
wget -r $CODE_REPO
What I haven't set is the r value.
 
sossego said:
I've just asked the googlecode project about a solution.
Code: 
wget -r $CODE_REPO
What I haven't set is the r value.
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Something is wrong here. First you were asking about pkg_add(1) and now you're talking about ftp/wget. The first one is a FreeBSD base system utility for retrieving packages from a package repository (using the fetch(3) library) and the second is a third-party utility for downloading any file from a remote location. The pkg_add(1)'s -r option tells it to use a remote repository (located at PACKAGESITE) while ftp/wget's -r option tells it to turn on recursive retrieving (i.e. all files in a hierarchy).
 
When the pkg_add utility did not work, I decided to use wget followed by curl. To my understanding, all three binaries work in a similar fashion. Pkg_add was used with the full path; and, the error that resulted was a 404 not found. PACKAGESITE, PACKAGEROOT, and PKG_PATH were given the entire path, resulting in a similar error.. The variables were set for both root and $USER. Taking all of the results into consideration, I reported what happened to Google code. Following my inquiry, a core member contacted suggesting a feature request, and I did such.

I did use wget -r to start fetching packages as a group; yet, after seeing that the packages were not downloading, wget was stopped with CTRL+C.
 
I have ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/powerpc/packages-9-current/
while ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/powerpc/packages-9-stable/ is the path given to me through the ports mailing list.


Trying
Code: 
echo $SHELL
after
Code: 
setenv PACKAGSITE=$PATH
did not work showed
Code: 
csh
and I decided to do a search.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/shells.html

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Pretty much sums up my reaction to me.
 
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