where is packagesite.txz sent to, and how is it usable if direct downloaded?

J

jb_fvwm2

Due to unsteady wifi, I 'wget' 'd packagesite.txz, but no reading of man pages tells where to put it, nor how to
unpack it so package knows it's there. That I've seen...
 
It's one of the files that get fetched by pkg-update(8). It should also fetch a digests.txz and a meta.txz nowadays. They all contain a YAML file that's read and saved to a SQLite database, I don't think they're meant to be "manhandled".

You might be able to 'trick' pkg(8) if you save them to a directory and set PACKAGESITE to file:///some/dir/where/you/saved/them.

If you really want to know how it works you can take a peek at the pkg(8) source code of course: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg
 
So I probably was asking for a new command: "pkg extract-and-install-packagesite" which would/may
mention that the first two files are in such and such a place [ the large file
the only one I've a problem downloading consistently... ] , and the $1 to the new command would
put it 3rd and proceed as if pkg had downloaded it. [ once wget had worked better than pkg could ].
Thanks for helping me clarify the q.
 
You can try increasing FETCH_RETRY and/or FETCH_TIMEOUT. Those might be useful in your case. All my packages come from a local repository and rarely fail to connected or download. If that happens my whole network is having issues and I have much bigger problems ;)
 
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