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Old 3rd August 2008
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Default pkg_add -r does not use exported packagesite

Without knowing if this is appropriate to do, my problem is:
I want to use a binary package in /packages-7-stable/Latest/ so I use
Code:
 export PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/
and try to use pkg_add -r . But then I get the error message
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Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/"the package": File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/"the package"' by URL
("the package" is just the dummy name here in this post")
Why does it not search using PACKAGESITE?
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Old 3rd August 2008
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from the pkg_add man page

Quote:
ENVIRONMENT
The value of the PKG_PATH is used if a given package cannot be found.
The environment variable should be a series of entries separated by
colons. Each entry consists of a directory name. The current directory
may be indicated implicitly by an empty directory name, or explicitly by
a single period.

The environment variable PKG_DBDIR specifies an alternative location for
the installed package database, default location is /var/db/pkg.

The environment variables PKG_TMPDIR and TMPDIR, in that order, are taken
to name temporary directories where pkg_add will attempt to create its
staging area in. If these variables are not present or if the directo-
ries named lack sufficient space, then pkg_add will use the first of
/var/tmp, /tmp or /usr/tmp with sufficient space.

The environment variable PACKAGEROOT specifies an alternate location for
pkg_add to fetch from. The fetch URL is built using this environment
variable and the automatic directory logic that pkg_add uses when the -r
option is invoked. An example setting would be "ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org".

The environment variable PACKAGESITE specifies an alternate location for
pkg_add to fetch from. This variable subverts the automatic directory
logic that pkg_add uses when the -r option is invoked. Thus it should be
a complete URL to the remote package file(s).

The environment variable PKGDIR specifies an alternative location to save
downloaded packages to when -K option is used.
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Sorry for me being a bit slow, but what do you mean? Should I set packageroot instead of packagesite?
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it should work.

anyway, try:
# PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/ pkg_add -r mysterious_package
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eeh well that is what I have tried and with some other variants too. with a Latest/. also as the path. First I thought that the enviroment variable was not available when I sudo but it is. So i guess I just have to look hard at the man page and find out what I'm doing wrong
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Try trimming Latest/ off the URL.
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> eeh well that is what I have tried

just the way i had given? are you sure?

are you saying that pkg_add is not using the PACKAGESITE env variable?
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Thanks for the replies, but I'm sorry to say that it is not working.
The variable PACKAGESITE is exported but it does not work.
Perhaps if I could use setenv instead, but I guess that does not work in bash. Also I cannot use setenv if I switch to sh since it complains that, setenv cannot be found. I cannot locate setenv, so I don't know if I have it. I find the man files for setenv but nothing more. That is weird since I use the standard installation of Freebsd 7
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setenv is for csh and tcsh, not for bourne shells.
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Ok, still it does not work if I use setenv in csh. But for you, is all that you do just to set the variable PACKAGESITE and then when you use pkg_add -nr , it searches according to PACKAGESITE?
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I don't know if it is against the rules to bump the thread, but since I still haven't solved this problem I hope that I do not offend anyone by doing so.

so here goes nothing - bump!
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What is the output of
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env | grep PACKAGESITE
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It works fine as far as I can see:

Code:
# env | grep PACKAGESITE
Exit 1

# pkg_add -r add
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/add.tbz... Done.
# pkg_delete add\*

# setenv PACKAGESITE http://example.com/
# pkg_add -r add
Error: FTP Unable to get http://example.com/add.tbz: Not Found
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'http://example.com/add.tbz' by URL
Exit 1
# uname -a
FreeBSD phong.rwxrwxrwx.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sun Aug 10 06:09:56 CEST 2008     carpetsmoker@phong.rwxrwxrwx.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PHONG  i386
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thank you for your replies, I feel somewhat honored that the two big shots here take the time to deal with this.

J65nko:
before I have exported PACKAGESITE, env |grep PACKAGESITE gives nothing
then if i export PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/
I get stable-7 in env | grep PACKAGESITE

Carpetsmoker:
with pf turned off and with packagesite set as above I get
Code:
[viktor@Dell /usr/home/viktor]$ env |grep PACKAGESITE
PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/
[viktor@Dell /usr/home/viktor]$ sudo pkg_add -nr add
Password:
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/add.tbz... Done.
but
Code:
[viktor@Dell /usr/home/viktor]$ uname -a
FreeBSD Dell 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
is the problem that you cannot use 7-stable with a 7.0-release (whatever that is) so it reverts to the default?
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Quote:
sudo pkg_add -nr add
Ahha, this is the problem, sudo doesn't copy the user's environment.

From sudoers(5):
Code:
    env_reset       If set, sudo will reset the environment to only contain
		       the LOGNAME, SHELL, USER, USERNAME and the SUDO_* vari-
		       ables.  Any variables in the caller's environment that
		       match the env_keep and env_check lists are then added.
		       The default contents of the env_keep and env_check
		       lists are displayed when sudo is run by root with the
		       -V option.  If sudo was compiled with the SECURE_PATH
		       option, its value will be used for the PATH environment
		       variable.  This flag is on by default.
And from sudo(8):
Code:
       -E  The -E (preserve environment) option will override the env_reset
	   option in sudoers(5)).  It is only available when either the match-
	   ing command has the SETENV tag or the setenv option is set in sudo-
	   ers(5).
So you'll need to look at configuring sudo, or use su.
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My hat's off to you Mr Carpetsmoker ! -You're surely good at debugging these kind of problems.
Do you know if this is something that is mentioned often in all the guides that recommend the new users to utilize sudo?
I guess that from now on I should not overlook the manfiles of the commands that I think I understand.
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The newer versions of sudo let the user only inherit a limited set of the environment variables.
However, you can add environment variables you want to inherit through the /etc/sudoers file.

From my OpenBSD box (sudo is maintained by OpenBSD developers):
Code:
# $OpenBSD: sudoers,v 1.12 2007/08/09 16:12:08 ajacoutot Exp $
#
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
    
# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification
Defaults env_keep +="DESTDIR FETCH_CMD FLAVOR FTPMODE MAKE MULTI_PACKAGES OKAY_FILES PKG_DBDIR PKG_D
ESTDIR PKG_CACHE PKG_PATH PKG_TMPDIR PORTSDIR RELEASEDIR SUBPACKAGE"
You see here some OpenBSD specific environment variables for the OpenBSD ports and package system like PKG_PATH and PKG_CACHE.

By adding PACKAGESITE to your FreeBSD sudoers file you will have solved this nasty issue
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