From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 17 06:52:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E714106566B for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:52:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tonyt@logyst.com) Received: from smtp.webfaction.com (mail6.webfaction.com [74.55.86.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C80F8FC0C for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f186.google.com (mail-px0-f186.google.com [209.85.216.186]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A21C39034D for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:52:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: by pxi16 with SMTP id 16so1474577pxi.3 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:52:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.157.21 with SMTP id f21mr820834rve.48.1255762376350; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:52:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910170208.46267.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> References: <200910170053.52329.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> <22166b750910162217m17b423aam135d4e3abc755236@mail.gmail.com> <200910170208.46267.GedankeZauberer@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:52:56 +1100 Message-ID: <22166b750910162352r58d0eeb3t7916dc2064fb493c@mail.gmail.com> From: Tony Theodore To: Allen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quickie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:52:59 -0000 2009/10/17 Allen : > 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.