From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 23:34:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B4016A422 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:34:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from AJGurdian@lanoticia.com) Received: from xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com (xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com [64.41.126.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AFC43D46 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:34:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from AJGurdian@lanoticia.com) Received: from [192.168.1.127] (rrcs-70-60-124-199.midsouth.biz.rr.com [70.60.124.199]) by xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B01D80A4 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:34:16 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <20060131230841.GA99863@storage.mine.nu> References: <20060131220131.GB38470@dan.emsphone.com> <92a0fa936ee007b04b74bf349f19b21a@lanoticia.com> <20060131230841.GA99863@storage.mine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alvaro_J._Gurdi=E1n?= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:33:46 -0500 To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Subject: Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:34:18 -0000 Oh, I forgot to mention that I had tried that. It downloaded the package but when I checked, pkg_check bind9-9.3.2 it said the package did not exist and pkg_check bind9-9.3.1 it gave me all the appropriate output. On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:08 PM, lars wrote: > > > You could also try > # pkg_add -r bind9 > for kicks. > > Maybe the FTP repository you are getting the package from > simply doesn't have the newest package(s). I have tried two others with the same result. > Otherwise, update your ports tree and install from there. I thought using sysinstall and telling it to get the ports from FTP would the latest and freshest around I would prefer to install from ports, but it looks like I will have to use ISC's code directly to compile. I cannot be the only one with this problem.......unless I am doing something wrong. Any ideas?