9.0 vs 9.1

[Devin Teske]

If you add $PACKAGESITE to your environment you can fetch just fine with pkg_add -r

Example…

env PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/ pkg_add -r irssi
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Devin


On Jan 10, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Scott Eberl wrote:

> OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all
> the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading
> to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It takes forever
> and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer is to. Early today I
> installed irssi which I had to do with make clean install because just
> doing pkg_add -r irssi complains about not being able to find the url of it.
> 
> Should I just reinstall 9.0 and not upgrade, will ports work correctly then?
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