Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 21:37:56 -0600 From: "Ryan Thompson [LAM]" <listaccount@home.com> To: freebsd-questions account <question@namodn.com> Cc: Bob <bjg@otherspace.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8 packages Message-ID: <3669FC14.7701278F@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981202171730.14712C-100000@namodn.com>
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Nah.. I've noticed this problem, too. The index appears to load garbled. I noticed it when I tried sysinstall over my day old copy on a FAT drive. I saw the messy entries and thought I had perhaps corrupted it when I viewed it in a DOS text editor... So I tried package installs over ftp (from several different mirrors), and saw the same thing. I don't recall what package I tried to add, but sysinstall balked on qt-1.41, saying it couldn't find All/qt-1.41.tgz (both on ftp.ca.freebsd.org and on my local (now native NFS) mirror). In both cases, the exact filename WAS present in the All/ directory. A quick text search through the INDEX file revealed that the file wasn't present in the index. I ended up running pkg_add right from the All/ directory on my drive. It finally found the dependent library at that time, and the add worked fine. - Ryan freebsd-questions account wrote: > Bob - > > If you're browsing packages that are on ftp.freebsd.org, why not use the > http interface http://www.freebsd.org/ports > ? > > Gets updated, and is just an all around nicer interface than sysinstall > (IMHO) :) > > -rob > ( www.namodn.com ) > ( mailto : robert@namodn.com ) > > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Bob wrote: > > > Is there a buggie in the 2.2.8 distribution's canned software packages? > > > > If I start /stand/sysinstall, and go to "configure installed system/add > > packaged software" section, and source is ftp.freebsd.org, the menu of > > available apps seems to be "not right". Most entries are "no description > > provided", some apps are listed twice, right on top of each other, (the > > library for pidentd is one example) , the xview3.2.1 stuff wouldn't > > install, it couldn't find files to satisfy dependancies... I've used the > > past few releases of FreeBSD, and that just looks whacked to me. :) <SNIP> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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