Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:31:35 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD pacakges? Message-ID: <200511262331.35883.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20051127054904.GA92813@thought.org> References: <20051127054904.GA92813@thought.org>
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On Saturday 26 November 2005 09:49 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > On my Thinkpad with 5.4 I'm able to use portupgrade -PP[&c] > to upgrade my ports via packages, but on my 5.3 platform I get > > ---> Fetching abiword-plugins-2.4.1 > fetch: > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All >/abiword-plugins-2.4.1.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no > access) > ** The command returned a non-zero exit status: 1 > > > Do we have to be this restrictive? I can see keeping the > versions 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, nd so forth separate, but no > reason to *not* let the majority of ports for, say, AbiWord, > from being able t be installed by package instead of having > to pull over the source tarball ... > > Hopefully somebody can shed some insights. > > gary There aren't versions like that. You should be using ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/abiword-2.4.1_1.tbz A way around it is to define a PACKAGESITE such as setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest It is all one line. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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