From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 2 15:02:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4941065673 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:02:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07C38FC1B for ; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n72Eno6Y053345; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:49:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id n72Enj2V053344; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:49:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:49:44 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20090802144944.GA50971@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20090802131209.32afe8a8@gluon.draftnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090802131209.32afe8a8@gluon.draftnet> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall - installing the docproj distribution X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:02:43 -0000 On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:12:09PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > I downloaded an 8-CURRENT powerpc snapshot from > http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/powerpc/8.0-HEAD-20090731-JPSNAP/cdrom/ > yesterday and tried to install it. The installation of the English > documentation set failed saying it couldn't find "packages/INDEX" on > the CD. The doc directory does exist so it seems it should be possible > to install it. Is this a bug in sysinstall? > Your ISO comes without any packages? I mean you cannot install any packages during installation time with sysinstall? If it's the case, it's normal you got this error: docs are now provided via packages so if packages/INDEXis not available it'll fail. You can install docs after installation time with: pkg_add -rv en-freebsd-doc -- Marc