From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 12: 5:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C102B37B404 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by pemaquid.safeport.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5NJ5ag80711 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:05:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:05:36 -0400 (EDT) From: To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: package for XFree86 4.2 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I got XFree86-4.2.0_1,1.tgz from ftp.freebsd.org. The dir I used was pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages/x11/ installing gets pkg_add -r XFree86-4.2.0_1,1.tgz Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/XFree86-4.2.0_1,1.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch `ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/XFree86-4.2.0_1,1.tgz' by URL downloading yielded a similar result. I guess my questions are: a) any benefit to using the FreeBSD package over www.xfree86.org b) if so, where does it live? _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message