Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:56:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Chris Chekay <sycholic71@adelphia.net> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP site problems Message-ID: <20020925065639.GA85826@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020924213147.Y6910-100000@bsd.lambdarpg.homeip.net> References: <20020921105832.GA18097@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20020924213147.Y6910-100000@bsd.lambdarpg.homeip.net>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:33:01PM -0400, Chris Chekay wrote: > Ah thank you very much Matthew for that help. Also i dont know if its > posted publicly on the web site, but might be a good idea to have that for > use older version uses. Thank you alot! > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Packages from older releases have been removed from the ftp sites to > > make room for the new packages for 4.7-RELEASE. The default package > > compression has also been changed from gzip to bzip2, which means that > > if you have an older version of pkg_add it's going to be mystified by > > recently built packages. Your choices now are > > > > .../ports/i386/packages-4.6-release > > .../ports/i386/packages-4.6.1-release > > .../ports/i386/packages-4.6.2-release > > > > which should all work on any system from the 4.x series so long as you > > fulfil all the dependencies. Use the PACKAGESITE environment variable > > to cause pkg_add(1) to search one of the alternate directories. Ha. A HEADSUP notice was posted on -ports and -stable yesterday by Bruce Mah on behalf of re@freebsd.org -- http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FreeBSD+bzip2+packages&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&scoring=d&selm=200209241542.g8OFgXPE006612%40intruder.bmah.org.lucky.freebsd.ports&rnum=1 The Release Engineering team has come to the conclusion that the bzip2 compressed packages aren't quite ready for general use by the project, so they're going to revert to the original gzip compression. Just wait for a few days and the .../packages-4-stable directory on the ftp sites will be repopulated with packages older systems can cope with. They'll be there before 4.7-RC2 is released, and at least until 4.7-RELEASE. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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