FreeBSD package management
This is a short of cheat sheet I’ve put together for FreeBSD management. All this information is available in the FreeBSD manual, but I prefer the “to the point” format of a cheat sheet.
This is a short of cheat sheet I’ve put together for FreeBSD management. All this information is available in the FreeBSD manual, but I prefer the “to the point” format of a cheat sheet.
Pretty simple, just set the PACKAGEROOT environment variable. For example: export PACKAGEROOT=ftp://ftp3.ca.freebsd.org There are other variables you can set, but they require more specific paths. What I like about PACKAGEROOT is it lets you specify your mirror and let pkg_add figure out the rest. A list of FreeBSD mirrors can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html. Update: […]