From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 20:05:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA28989 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA28984 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02745; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:05:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "S(pork)" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Packages" questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, S(pork) wrote: > 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. The INDEX system lists _all_ available ported software, including ports. rzsz and fwtk in particular does not exist as a package due to legal restrictions; however the port works fine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major