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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:46:25 -0700
From:      jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net>
To:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Name resolution
Message-ID:  <d25eb92920943528f4b66e9bf71a7201@prodigy.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071028005432.10b3cbfd@gumby.homeunix.com.>
References:  <d19aaf66b20e478b0b0777d197c737d4@prodigy.net> <20071028005432.10b3cbfd@gumby.homeunix.com.>

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On Oct 27, 2007, at 4:54 PM, RW wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700
> jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>> I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms.
>> I set up a  system with a static ip connection to the internet
>> and when I run:
>>
>> pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I
>> downloaded just a few days ago)
>>
>> I get this:
>> Error: FTP Unable to get
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/
>> Latest/csup-without-gui.tbz: No address record
>
> It's called cvsup-without-gui, but you don't actually need it because
> csup (a rewrite in C of the non-gui version of cvsup) is in the base
> system.
>
thank you; your right it is cvsup, but the handbook indicates that I
could use csup in place of cvsup in the command line on v6.2 and up.
  But that does not seem to effect the resolver issue (unless I am
mistaken here and the resolver is actually working and it is just the 
reference)
Jeff K




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