From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 20:37:57 2005 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 8679E16A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:37:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168ED43D46 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:37:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j8LKbu0r031471 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:37:56 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j8LKbr6P018961; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:37:56 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 677015127A; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:37:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:37:53 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Burchell Message-ID: <20050921203753.GA31172@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: pkg_add -r returns error? 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: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:37:57 -0000 --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:52:26PM -0600, Chris Burchell wrote: > I have a freshly installed 5.3-RELEASE system configured and am trying > to add a few packages using the 'pkg_add -r' command, but I get errors > for all packages similar to the following: >=20 >=20 > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest > /fastest-cvsup.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > pkg_add: unable to fetch > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Lates > t/fastest-cvsup.tbz' by URL >=20 >=20 > I noticed that the FTP site does not have a 'packages-5.3-RELEASE' > directory, but only a 'packages-5-stable' and a 'packages-5.4-release' > directory. >=20 > Does this have to do something with the fact that my system 'RELEASE > NAME' variable is '5.3-RELEASE'? If so, how do I work around this? This is discussed here fairly regularly. You are running 5.3-release, so pkg_add -r looks for 5.3-release packages. You can either point pkg_add at another master site that still carries them (see the manpage), or try to use the 5.4-stable packages, which are not supported on 5.3. Kris --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDMcSgWry0BWjoQKURAqeNAKDx4UDesTpxvCLbGFSbRRfVQmKJKQCg1ruH O2lCScMm+1eMn68LjqaVa3U= =htoT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--