Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:36:18 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_add -r location for stable Message-ID: <200207211636.18581.bts@babbleon.org>
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The pkg_add -r location doesn't seem to me to be as clever as it ought to be; or the package site doesn't have things installed as they ought to be. I wanted to upgrade my system, and my experience with massive portupgrades and/or with trying to replace packages and/or ports piecemeal has not been a happy one, so I got the clever idea to upgrade my base system with the usual buildworld/kernel/boot/intallworld/mergemaster thing (which always works so smoothly--major coolness points for FreeBSD here) and then pkg_delete -a and then go back and re-install all my packages. (I saved a list before upgrading.) In general, this worked pretty well, but . . . I thought that I could just "pkg_add -r", but it failed to find a lot of my packages. The reason that it failed to find them is that it was looking in (for example) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest which is probably a very reasonable place to look first, but it seems to make that it would make sense if it's not found there to look in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All instead. Or perhaps the problem instead is that Latest should be populated wtih more than it currently has. In any case, the net effect is that pkg_add -r doesn't work as automatically as one would hope at -stable. (I could very well be wrong but I'm guessing that the difficulty is related to grabbing packages while running stable, which I presume not to be the conventional way to do things.) -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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