Rookie question: NetBSD pkgsrc mirrors...
After a bit of to-and-fro on another thread, I've decided to give NetBSD a go.
Fortunately there are a few local mirrors which host the project... all good. I'm not sure if this is to do with my geographic location, (far south east [as in 10,000 miles from civilisation]), but the main NetBSD site is slow to the point of being unusable here. Attempting to add pkgin during installation using the default URL results in a timeout. This is probably a rookie question, but I can't seem to find the location of the pkgsrc directory on the mirrors. Looking in the 'packages' directory reveals a README file which says: Quote:
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Hey rkelson,
Good to see you on the BSD forum. For me I find it easier to enable the installation of binary packages on the NetBSD installation system configuration window. NetBSD has thousands of binary packages available to install with: # pkgin install packagename That works like a charm. http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/...-configuration Each to his, her own I just prefer installing packages on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. I do know there are many people who prefer compiling their own packages. |
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NetBSD is quite nifty. :)
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some examples...
Code:
export PKG_PATH="http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.2/All/" ; pkg_add -v pkgin |
(I'm making the assumption that "far South East" is in reference to Asia)
In /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf add this line: ftp://ftp2.jp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/$osrelease/All If that mirror doesn't work, maybe try a more suitable one from here: https://netbsd.org/mirrors/ It may be a good idea to log in using ftp to make sure pkgsrc is on the mirror as some may just be NetBSD OS source/images, in addition to other OS images. |
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