Re: binary package server

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 06:43:40PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I am having trouble setting up a package server: I have a load of packages
> in host:/usr/pkgsrc/packages/All, and in that directory, I ran
> 
>    pkg_info -X *.tgz | bzip2 > pkg_summary.bz2
> 
> Is there any more to it than that?
>     
> Next comes the serving. I popped httpd -HX /usr/pkgsrc in my inetd.conf.  
>     
> If I point a web browser at host:/usr/pkgsrc/packages/All, I see them all.
> If I export PKG_PATH=http://host/packages/All/ then 
> 
>    pkg_add -v glib2
>    pkg_add -v glib2-2.32.4.tgz
> 
> shows a GET /packages/All/ in host's xferlog, but "no pkg found"
> 
>    pkg_add -v http://host/packages/All/glib2-2.32.4.tgz
>         
> finds glib2, but then fails on its dependencies: 
> 
>    Can't process http://host:80/packages/All/perl*: Host not found
>         
> Doesn't httpd(8) understand the asterisk or am I missing something?
> 
> BTW the computer I am trying to pkg_add on has no packages at all.

Answer is change to anonftp...

Cheers,

Patrick