From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 10 20:28:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B927F918 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:28:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BFC7AD for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([173.88.197.103]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:28:34 -0800 Message-ID: <50EF2471.8050701@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:28:33 -0500 From: Fbsd8 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Mardorf Subject: Re: Unable to install xorg using pkg_add References: <1357848489.2431.10.camel@q> In-Reply-To: <1357848489.2431.10.camel@q> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jan 2013 20:28:34.0443 (UTC) FILETIME=[101F1DB0:01CDEF71] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-Authenticated-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-EchoSenderHash: [fbsd8]-[a1poweruser*com] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:28:33 -0000 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:30 -0600, Scott Eberl wrote: >> [snip] I then updated to 9.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything >> seems to have gone smoothly but now I'm getting the below error when trying >> to isntall xorg. > > I upgraded from 8.3 to 9.1, > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-December/247579.html , without fixing anything until now, it was possible to build X today from /usr/ports/x11/xorg. > > Regarding to your issue, take a look at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ , there's no 9.1, IIUC > you need to use stable. > > Regards, > Ralf > Add this to your /root/.cshrc file setenv PACKAGESITE "ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports /i386/packages-current/Latest/" and when you su to root your pkg_add -r command will now get current packages. Its still 6 weeks old, but it's the best FreeBSD has to offer right now for 9.1 users. Works for me.