On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:15PM +0100, eoghan wrote: > On 30 Sep 2005, at 15:30, Josh Ockert wrote: > > >Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be > >to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had you > >tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't exist > >under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would > >have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for > >packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment > >variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the > >archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the > >man page. > > > > > >My recommendation would be: > > o Set PACKAGESITE to: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/ > > o pkg_add -rf portupgrade > > o portupgrade -arfP > > Ok thanks. I have done this... > setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ > packages-5-stable/ > and im still getting the same error.
Show us the error, it can't be precisely the same one since you changed the environment variable. > I have checked the ftp site and > its there. So im not sure what I need to do? Kris
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