From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 12:38:48 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 7D87037B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (nmail1.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9478B43E77 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:38:45 -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 g6OJZZse008276; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:35:35 +0100 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6OJZZss008275; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:35:35 +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: <1027539335.3d3f01875ec66@netmail.pipex.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:35:35 +0100 From: Cc: , References: <1027534025.3d3eecc9e656e@netmail.pipex.net> <5iQKrFB97uP9EwxH@caomhin.demon.co.uk> <1027536277.3d3ef59533fb0@netmail.pipex.net> <1027537417.3d3efa09e9316@netmail.pipex.net> <9zZb$rBY0vP9EwAN@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9zZb$rBY0vP9EwAN@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 Hi Kevin, Seems as if we've been barking up the wrong tree here: From list member Marc's e-mail: XFree86 is the name to use to fetch XFree86 4.X Look at this: # pkg_add -rv XFree86 looking up ftp.freebsd.org connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21 setting passive mode opening data connection initiating transfer Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/L atest/XFree86.tgz...+CONTENTS ..., What do you make of this? Stacey Quoting Kevin Golding : > Someone, quite probably , once wrote: > >Sorry Kevin, I didn't quite understand your reply. > > If you can't get a file from ftp.freebsd.org then it's worth trying for > it on ftp2.freebsd.org, or ftp3.freebsd.org > > Locality works to, ftp.uk.freebsd.org for example. > > You'll probably do best if you browse the ftp server before trying to > download it, that way you'll be able to see the binaries they have and > you'll know whether or not it's worth trying to download or just moving > on to another mirror. > > Kevin > -- > kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message