Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:31:51 +0200, "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/4/08, Randy Bush <randy_at_psg.com> wrote:
>>> This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.org which you
>>> can install with 'pkg_add -r'.  You can install them from any FTP
>>> mirror, actually; just point PACKAGEROOT at the mirror:
>>
>> why isn't this stuff in the docs?  oh, it is!  silly me.  is the problem
>> that there are just too much doc or two little reading?
>>
>> </sarcasm>
>
> It is in pkg_add(1), If you are talking about handbook only
> PACKAGESITE is documented: should get fixed.

Hi Paul,

Can you please open a docs/* problem report for this?  Feel free to add
`keramida' to the `X-GNATS-Notify:' header.  I'll try to add at least a
reference to pkg_add(1) to read more about the `PACKAGEROOT' environment
variable.

I'm just getting back from a 8-10 day period of ${offline_world} stuff,
but it would be a shame to lose the opportunity to document this,
because it got hidden in the `noise' of the mailing lists.