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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:43:56 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Phillip Remaker <remaker@sbcglobal.net>
Cc:        freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xmms missing form /stand/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <20020930064356.GA50215@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D97EB29.2010207@sbcglobal.net>
References:  <3D97EB29.2010207@sbcglobal.net>

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On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:11:53PM -0700, Phillip Remaker wrote:

> I was surprised to see that XMMS was NOT in the audio packages section,=
=20
> but  alot of XMMS related tools were.  So I tried to install the tools,=
=20
> figuring XMMS would be picked up as a dependency.  No luck, cryptic error=
s.

Not sure why this is..you didnt mention what release.  Perhaps the
port wasn't buildable at the time of release.

> I ended up manually locating the package and running pkg_add.  The=20
> package name was
>=20
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/packages/audio/xmms=
-1.2.7_2.tgz
>=20
> So I'm GUESSING that the underscore gives sysinstall heartburn?  Pardon=
=20
> me for not digging into the source 8-( but I figure comeone on the list=
=20
> might care.  Point me elsewhere of appropriate.

No, it's certainly not the '_' (that's part of the version number).

> Another question for the maintainers of sysinstall:  How about CACHING=20
> the INDEX when retreived over the network?  I had do download the same=20
> index dozens of times, and I think a local copy is in order, even if it=
=20
> only has a 15 minute lifetime, with a user option to refresh from the=20
> net if needed.

sysinstall is designed to be used from floppy..there's no space to
store it then.  I don't know if it could be done different in other
cases.

Kris


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