Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:56:28 +0100 From: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com> Subject: Re: pkg_add problem Message-ID: <04AA839F-9683-448D-AD98-E34F5057637A@redry.net> In-Reply-To: <20050930175004.GA76811@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <AD7E3186-659A-48C2-9B84-5AE6BB752064@redry.net> <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com> <08C61163-6D0C-4C30-ABC7-F5999FAD8E1B@redry.net> <20050930170540.GB59432@xor.obsecurity.org> <1C84826E-2B8A-4756-AB89-2177F90A6714@redry.net> <20050930175004.GA76811@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 30 Sep 2005, at 18:50, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:37:37PM +0100, eoghan wrote: > >> >> On 30 Sep 2005, at 18:05, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >> >>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:15PM +0100, eoghan wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 30 Sep 2005, at 15:30, Josh Ockert wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be >>>>> to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had >>>>> you >>>>> tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't >>>>> exist >>>>> under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would >>>>> have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for >>>>> packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment >>>>> variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the >>>>> archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the >>>>> man page. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> My recommendation would be: >>>>> o Set PACKAGESITE to: >>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/ >>>>> o pkg_add -rf portupgrade >>>>> o portupgrade -arfP >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ok thanks. I have done this... >>>> setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ >>>> packages-5-stable/ >>>> and im still getting the same error. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Show us the error, it can't be precisely the same one since you >>> changed the environment variable. >>> >> >> i set the PACKAGESITE... then >> pkg_add -r gnome2 >> >> Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ >> i386/ >> packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., not found, no >> access) >> pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ >> i386/packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz' by URL >> > > Indeed, there is no such file in this directory. You're missing a > Latest/. > Ah! Thanks for your help all. Eoghan
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