From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org  Sun Jan 31 15:44:38 2016
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68973A745E5
 for <freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>;
 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:44:38 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org)
Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (Client did not present a certificate)
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B327128B
 for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:44:37 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org)
Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69)
 (envelope-from <freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org>) id 1aPuB1-0007Ej-HO
 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:44:35 +0100
Received: from p4fc54e8c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.197.78.140])
 by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
 id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
 for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:44:35 +0100
Received: from jumper99 by p4fc54e8c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim
 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
 for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:44:35 +0100
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Did pkg drop ftp support?
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:44:30 +0000 (UTC)
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <xn0k1nzprga1x4i001@news.gmane.org>
References: <xn0k1ny6cg7ywjt000@news.gmane.org>
 <1454254025.2464737.507613506.712A6141@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fc54e8c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de
User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.194
X-Ref: news.gmane.org ~XNS:00000069
X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20
Precedence: list
List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-ports>,
 <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
 <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:44:38 -0000

Tobias Kortkamp wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 03:46 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > url:  "pkg+ftp://ftp.mysite/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ABI}"
> > 
> > worked fine until ~2 weeks ago. Now I get an error message when
> > running pkg:
> > 
> > [helmut@BSDHelmut1064 ~]$ sudo pkg update
> > pkg: invalid scheme pkg+ftp
> > pkg: Cannot parse configuration file!
> > [helmut@BSDHelmut1064 ~]$
> > 
> > Was ftp support dropped?
>
> Unless you want to use SRV records on your domain, just using ftp://
> and setting mirror_type to NONE for your repository should work fine

Did so. Thanks!