From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 11:47:58 2002 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 6A2EA37B400; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (nmail1.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296C643E65; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sroberts@dsl.pipex.com) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6OIibse007446; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:44:37 +0100 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6OIib6a007445; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:44:37 +0100 To: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target? Message-ID: <1027536277.3d3ef59533fb0@netmail.pipex.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:44:37 +0100 From: Cc: , , References: <1027534025.3d3eecc9e656e@netmail.pipex.net> <5iQKrFB97uP9EwxH@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5iQKrFB97uP9EwxH@caomhin.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: PIPEX NetMail 2.2.0-pre13 X-PIPEX-username: sroberts%dsl.pipex.com X-Originating-IP: 81.86.129.77 X-Usage: Use of PIPEX NetMail is subject to the PIPEX Terms and Conditions of use Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the reply, Kevin, However, I think that the address you included is indeed the address from which pkg_add is failing to fetch XFree86-4. Stacey Quoting Kevin Golding : > Someone, quite probably , once wrote: > > I want to install the latest version of XFree86-4. > > > >I've already tried going via the ports an hour ago, which failed with > lots of > >syntax errors. I do not want to bother with the port, and would like to > install > >via a package. > > > >However, pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails with "File not available" whilst > attempting > >to fetch the package from some FreeBSD mirror. > > > >How do I tell pkg_add to try somewhere else? > > You can give it an actual location if you like: > > # pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/x11/ > XFree86-4 > > Kevin > -- > kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message