From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 17 0:31:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CB137B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from barney.binasys.co.uk (barney.binasys.co.uk [216.40.247.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FE0943EB2 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:31:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@barney.binasys.co.uk) Received: (qmail 4437 invoked by uid 2526); 17 Dec 2002 08:31:30 -0000 To: "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Retrieving packages ? Message-ID: <1040113889.3dfee0e1d6fa9@webmail.rugragging.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:31:29 +0000 (GMT) From: ranjit@rugragging.com References: <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net> In-Reply-To: <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.7 X-Originating-IP: 167.202.196.72 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Sam, Are you using /stand/sysinstall to install the packages by ftp? I can't download using that method either. Can you ftp the packages and then add them with pkg_add instead? Ciao Bruce Quoting Sam Drinkard : > I've run across some items I don't particularly want to build due to all > > the various dependencies, and thought perhaps just doing an install of > packages. I'm running 4.7-Stable. When I try to grab the packages I > want, it fails (don't recall the error message, but I believe > "unknown"). I've set the version to be 4.7-Release. Is there some > other tweak I need to do to be able to retrieve packages on a -stable > system from the -release versions? > > Thanks.. > > Sam > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message