Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:52:56 +1100 From: Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> To: Allen <GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quickie question Message-ID: <22166b750910162352r58d0eeb3t7916dc2064fb493c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910170208.46267.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> References: <200910170053.52329.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> <22166b750910162217m17b423aam135d4e3abc755236@mail.gmail.com> <200910170208.46267.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net>
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2009/10/17 Allen <GedankeZauberer@comcast.net>: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:17:21 am Tony Theodore wrote: > >> I think portupgrade -a will have updated all packages to the latest >> versions, and pkg_add -r won't be able to find a newer one to install. >> Try adding a package that you don't already have installed and see >> what happens. > > Hey, thanks for answering ! > > OK, here is what happens if I try something like asclock which wasn't > installed: > > pkg_add -r asclock > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/Latest/asclock.tbz > File unavailable (e.g., File not found, no access) > pkg_add: unable to > fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/Latest/asclock.tbz' > by URL > > So basically, if I try to use pkg_add -r now, it won't work. It didn't happen > until I did the upgrading or updating, so I'm thinking I made a screw up. OK, so if you have a look at the contents of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/, it seems 7.1 packages are no longer being built. Not sure there's much you can do apart from using ports or upgrading.
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