[geeks] freebsd and package tools

[Shannon Hendrix]

Does anyone know how FreeBSD package tools determine what URL to use  
when fetching packages?

I have a development/production system at work that is a September  
2007 -current release which tracked current for some time and was  
customized.

For various reasons it won't be upgrade for some time, and package  
fetches fail because it tries to find packages at:

	ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-7-current

Does anyone know where this URL is generated and what to change so  
that it will fetch packages from packages-7.0-release instead?

Yes, I know I can set PACKAGESITE env var, but I need this to be  
permanent to it can work with unattended systems we have in the field  
based on this release.

You would think this would be documented somewhere.

Thanks for any help or pointers, as long as they are not suggestions  
to upgrade... :)



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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com