Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 18:28:16 -800 From: walton@nordicdms.com (Dave Walton) To: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall not showing all packages Message-ID: <19980509012816351.AAA234@mail.nordicdms.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508153201.28351B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> References: <19980506010521799.AAA333@mail.nordicdms.com>
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On 8 May 98 at 15:32, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Dave Walton wrote: > > > The oddest thing just happened. I had just finished a new install, > > and I wanted to install Lynx. I ran /stand/sysinstall and told it to > > install from ftp.freebsd.org. When it displayed the package listing, > > Lynx was missing! I went and looked in > > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.6/www, and there it was, > > right where it was supposed to be. Two different versions, in fact. > > Sysinstall checks /usr/ports/INDEX for it's list. If that is out of date > then it won't show. Hrm. Why would sysinstall look at my local /usr/ports/INDEX when I told it to install *packages* via *ftp*? Besides, lynx is in there. On the other hand, you're on the right track. A quick check of ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.6/INDEX shows that lynx is *NOT* listed in that file. I dunno who is responsible for updating that file, but looks like it needs refreshing. Wonder what else is missing... Speaking of sysinstall... The "HTML Docs" menu item is hard-coded to require lynx-2.7.2 to be installed. Is there some way to override that? I already have lynx-2.8rel.2 installed. Thanks, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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