This may be one of the most important commands I have learned this month. It tells me where the packages will be fetched from.
$ pkg -vv Version : 1.2.7_2 PACKAGESITE : PKG_DBDIR : /var/db/pkg PKG_CACHEDIR : /var/cache/pkg PORTSDIR : /usr/ports PUBKEY : HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS : no ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES : no REPOS_DIR : [ /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/, ] PLIST_KEYWORDS_DIR : SYSLOG : yes AUTODEPS : yes ABI : freebsd:9:x86:64 DEVELOPER_MODE : no PORTAUDIT_SITE : http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/auditfile.tbz VULNXML_SITE : http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2 MIRROR_TYPE : SRV FETCH_RETRY : 3 PKG_PLUGINS_DIR : /usr/local/lib/pkg/ PKG_ENABLE_PLUGINS : yes PLUGINS : [ ] DEBUG_SCRIPTS : no PLUGINS_CONF_DIR : /usr/local/etc/pkg/ PERMISSIVE : no REPO_AUTOUPDATE : yes NAMESERVER : EVENT_PIPE : FETCH_TIMEOUT : 30 UNSET_TIMESTAMP : no SSH_RESTRICT_DIR : PKG_SSH_ARGS : PKG_ENV : { } DISABLE_MTREE : no DEBUG_LEVEL : 0 ALIAS : { } Repositories: local: { url : "pkg+https://services.example.org/packages/92amd64-default-tallboy/", enabled : yes, mirror_type : "SRV", signature_type : "PUBKEY", pubkey : "/etc/ssl/slocum.example.org.cert" }