From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 21:58:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BAD106566B for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434F38FC1A for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0PLOkPG011408; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q0PLOjke011405; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:45 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <201201251148.33304.jhb@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <4F1D27FE.6040604@ish.com.au> <201201251148.33304.jhb@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:46 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org, Aristedes Maniatis Subject: Re: missing 9.0 installation packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:58:20 -0000 On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, January 23, 2012 4:27:26 am Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> I wanted to install src onto an existing RELEASE-9.0 box (that is maintained > using freebsd-update), since I needed to build lsof. I then used sysintall as > follows: >> >> * Media: ftp.freebsd.org >> * Distribution: custom -> src -> sys/base/include/lib >> >> Error message was then: >> >> | Unable to transfer the sbase distribution from ? >> ? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. ? >> ? ? >> ? Do you want to try to retrieve it again? | >> >> >> I see some distributions here: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/9.0-RELEASE/ but I > can't see anything called sbase.txz in my searching. >> >> This might work fine from CD, but this server is in the colo without an easy > way for me to insert a CD. > > You can't use sysinstall on 9.0 since the distribution format changed. I > don't think there is a way to install them via bsdinstall post-install. > (Nathan cc'd in case there is). I think you can root around in the FTP > directory and find the source tarball and untar it on your box by hand > however. People have been asking on the forums, too, so I wrote this to show retrieving the source as a tar file, with csup, and with svn: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172