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Introduce PACKAGESITE envar and explain

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how to set an alternative packagesite.

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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r <replaceable>lsof</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>The example above would download the correct package and
add it without any further user intervention. &man.pkg.add.1;
add it without any further user intervention.
If you want to specify an alternative &os; Packages Mirror,
instead of the main distribution site, you have to set
<envar>PACKAGESITE</envar> accordingly, to
override the default settings. &man.pkg.add.1;
uses &man.fetch.3; to download the files, which honors various
environment variables, including
<envar>FTP_PASSIVE_MODE</envar>, <envar>FTP_PROXY</envar>, and