From owner-freebsd-config Sun Sep 29 23:43:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5808837B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 72oot.net (72oot.net [216.122.237.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25DC43E42 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freedom@72oot.net) Received: from 72oot.net ([12.242.138.4]) by 72oot.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g8U6jex15633; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:45:40 GMT (envelope-from freedom@72oot.net) Message-ID: <3D979074.7060300@72oot.net> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:44:52 +0000 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phillip Remaker Cc: freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xmms missing form /stand/sysinstall References: <3D97EB29.2010207@sbcglobal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Phillip Remaker wrote: > > Well, I made the jump to FreeBSD. It has been a few years since I made > a serious run at a FreeBSD install, and this weekend I got two systems > up. With Audio, even. The installer /stand/sysinstall has come a LONG > way, congratulations. 4.6 installed from the mini-iso is a treat. > > I was surprised to see that XMMS was NOT in the audio packages section, > but alot of XMMS related tools were. So I tried to install the tools, > figuring XMMS would be picked up as a dependency. No luck, cryptic errors. > > I ended up manually locating the package and running pkg_add. The > package name was > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/packages/audio/xmms-1.2.7_2.tgz > > > So I'm GUESSING that the underscore gives sysinstall heartburn? Pardon > me for not digging into the source 8-( but I figure comeone on the list > might care. Point me elsewhere of appropriate. Try #/usr/ports/audio/xmms . You did install ports. ? > > Another question for the maintainers of sysinstall: How about CACHING > the INDEX when retreived over the network? I had do download the same > index dozens of times, and I think a local copy is in order, even if it > only has a 15 minute lifetime, with a user option to refresh from the > net if needed. > > I *know* that real FReeBSD users don't use sysinstall, but I like it and > I think it is a good vehicle to get newbies into a real OS. > > I suppose I could also talk abotu ranking the packages, so that popular > packages are maked more prominently, but I suppose that would run afoul > of the democratic principles engendered by the FreeBSD project. > > Thanks for listening, and thanks for the OS. Pointers, redirects, etc > welcomed. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message Ryan Merrick freedom@72oot.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message