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

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 12:31:53 UTC 2008


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.

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