From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 7:43:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8CF37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E473543EAF for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8420066C7B; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:43:27 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Tony M." Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Packages Using Sysinstall? Message-ID: <20021015144327.GE72182@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3DABAA43.C394B84C@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tqI+Z3u+9OQ7kwn0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DABAA43.C394B84C@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --tqI+Z3u+9OQ7kwn0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:40:19PM -0700, Tony M. wrote: > Hello again everyone. > I am trying to use the sysinstall utility to add packages. If I use the = main server > (ftp.freebsd.org) then I get a message saying that it can't find the 4.7-= RC1 > distribution on this server. > When I set the options to "any" and then try it it says it can't find the= /INDEX file > on the specified server. Even when I put in the full path to > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.7-rc1/ as a url, = it still > can't find it. >=20 > What am I doing wrong? Release Candidate packages are not kept on the server after the release is made. Upgrade to 4.7-RELEASE or manually change the 'release' string in the sysinstall config screen. Kris --tqI+Z3u+9OQ7kwn0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9rCmOWry0BWjoQKURAlu9AJ9PXsuLLnhViMc+AX7naPdS3zUxMgCeLQsk O4a6Wha7aExYIBO2m5UQdTs= =l5pw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tqI+Z3u+9OQ7kwn0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message