From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 18:28:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29924 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 18:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com ([207.21.168.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29899 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 18:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: from mail-ftp (mail.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.101]) by mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205e ID# 0-0U10L2S100) with SMTP id AAA234; Fri, 8 May 1998 18:28:16 -0700 From: walton@nordicdms.com (Dave Walton) Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 18:28:16 -800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: sysinstall not showing all packages Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com References: <19980506010521799.AAA333@mail.nordicdms.com> In-reply-to: Message-ID: <19980509012816351.AAA234@mail.nordicdms.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 May 98 at 15:32, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Dave Walton wrote: > > > The oddest thing just happened. I had just finished a new install, > > and I wanted to install Lynx. I ran /stand/sysinstall and told it to > > install from ftp.freebsd.org. When it displayed the package listing, > > Lynx was missing! I went and looked in > > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.6/www, and there it was, > > right where it was supposed to be. Two different versions, in fact. > > Sysinstall checks /usr/ports/INDEX for it's list. If that is out of date > then it won't show. Hrm. Why would sysinstall look at my local /usr/ports/INDEX when I told it to install *packages* via *ftp*? Besides, lynx is in there. On the other hand, you're on the right track. A quick check of ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.6/INDEX shows that lynx is *NOT* listed in that file. I dunno who is responsible for updating that file, but looks like it needs refreshing. Wonder what else is missing... Speaking of sysinstall... The "HTML Docs" menu item is hard-coded to require lynx-2.7.2 to be installed. Is there some way to override that? I already have lynx-2.8rel.2 installed. Thanks, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message