On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 03:00:51PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2007, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > >Hi Antti, > > Hi and thanks for your reply. > > [snip] > >Instead, the syntax specified in ftp(1) is > > ftp [-o output] ftp://[user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port]/file[/] > >so you need to specify the password, i.e. > > PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/packages/ > > Yeah I read the manual before posting but didn't realize > it needs password too and I was uncomfortable providing > it from the command line. > > >[snip] By the way, if your packages > >are secret, are you sure you want to install them? On the other > >hand, in case you just use wierd non-standard usernames for > >anonymous ftp, you are successfully implementing obscurity by > >obscurity which is probably a bad idea, too. > > For snapshot installation I fetch the whole tree to a server > near by in case I have to install something later on. I > don't want to mix packages from newer snapshots.
Does 'the whole tree' mean ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/* in this case? In that case, don't do that - it puts far too much strain on the mirrors. Joachim -- TFMotD: kgmon (8) - generate a dump of the operating system's profile buffers
