pkg_add

[Glen Barber]

On 6/24/10 10:02 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On 6/24/10 9:49 PM, Fbsd1 wrote:
>> Glen Barber wrote:
>>>
>>> Using the above FTP URL, PKG_PATH will look for
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.cn.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/Latest/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>> No I am not looking for the remote path to fetch the package
>> distribution file from. When doing pkg_add -Kr pkgname
>> will save the downloaded distribution pkg file.
>> My question is where is this file saved at on my host by default.
>> /usr/packages maybe????
>>
>
> /usr/ports/packages, assuming it exists. If not, it will save to the
> port directory.


Actually, to quote pkg_add(1):
      -K, --keep
              Keep any downloaded package in PKGDIR if it is defined or 
in current directory by default.

Therefore, if PKGDIR is not defined, it should use $PWD.

PKGDIR and PKG_PATH are two entirely different environment variables.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber