From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 5 19:38:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13625 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13620 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listaccount@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.65.122.172]) by ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5 release 217 ID# 0-53853L0S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:37:59 -0800 Message-ID: <3669FC14.7701278F@home.com> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 21:37:56 -0600 From: "Ryan Thompson [LAM]" Reply-To: ryant@home.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions account CC: Bob , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8 packages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message