From owner-freebsd-config Sun Sep 29 23:10: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4191D37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (pimout4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF3D43E42 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:10:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from remaker@sbcglobal.net) Received: from sbcglobal.net (adsl-64-175-34-174.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [64.175.34.174]) by pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8U69x0N064978 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 02:09:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3D97EB29.2010207@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:11:53 -0700 From: Phillip Remaker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: xmms missing form /stand/sysinstall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I made the jump to FreeBSD. It has been a few years since I made a serious run at a FreeBSD install, and this weekend I got two systems up. With Audio, even. The installer /stand/sysinstall has come a LONG way, congratulations. 4.6 installed from the mini-iso is a treat. I was surprised to see that XMMS was NOT in the audio packages section, but alot of XMMS related tools were. So I tried to install the tools, figuring XMMS would be picked up as a dependency. No luck, cryptic errors. I ended up manually locating the package and running pkg_add. The package name was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/packages/audio/xmms-1.2.7_2.tgz So I'm GUESSING that the underscore gives sysinstall heartburn? Pardon me for not digging into the source 8-( but I figure comeone on the list might care. Point me elsewhere of appropriate. Another question for the maintainers of sysinstall: How about CACHING the INDEX when retreived over the network? I had do download the same index dozens of times, and I think a local copy is in order, even if it only has a 15 minute lifetime, with a user option to refresh from the net if needed. I *know* that real FReeBSD users don't use sysinstall, but I like it and I think it is a good vehicle to get newbies into a real OS. I suppose I could also talk abotu ranking the packages, so that popular packages are maked more prominently, but I suppose that would run afoul of the democratic principles engendered by the FreeBSD project. Thanks for listening, and thanks for the OS. Pointers, redirects, etc welcomed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message