pkg_add -r could be better?

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Aragon Gouveia <aragon at phat.za.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/28/10 22:07, Sean McAfee wrote:
>>
>> Why are you using -r (which fetches the default packages from
>> freebsd.org/mirrors) in conjunction with custom packages?
>
> My intention is to serve them to multiple systems from a single FTP/HTTP
> server.  I set PACKAGEROOT/PACKAGESITE to override the default mirror
> selection.

It is a known bug that has not been addressed yet. In our own similar
setup we run pkg_add twice, if needed, or use portinstall which brings
also all those build dependencies that are not really needed.

Regards,
Panagiotis