From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 13:45:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA24408 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from super-g.inch.com (spork@super-g.com [204.178.32.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24393 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA13890 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:44:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:44:09 -0500 (CDT) From: "S(pork)" X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Packages" questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I've got a simple question about the FreeBSD "packages" system: I've been using this both with the install utility and with pkg_add ftp://etc.... to add some packages. If I use pkg_add witht the ftp option (I generally use the primary site) it will say at some point that it is retrieving the index, and then present me with a list of available packages. In particular I've been looking for rz/sz and fwtk. They are both listed as available packages, but I always end up with a message stating that the package is not available. Is this normal? I would assume that the Index is being read for the list of packages, and that if the index states a package is available, it is... If not, is there a listing somewhere on the web/ftp site of reliable sites to download source from? Thanks, Charles ps- FBSD has made me very happy.