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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 15:32:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dave Walton <walton@nordicdms.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall not showing all packages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508153201.28351B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980506010521799.AAA333@mail.nordicdms.com>

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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  If that is out of date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.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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