Re: pkg_add problem

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:50:04 -0400
To: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>

    On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:37:37PM +0100, eoghan wrote:
    >
    > On 30 Sep 2005, at 18:05, Kris Kennaway wrote:
    >
    > >On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:15PM +0100, eoghan wrote:
    > >
    > >>On 30 Sep 2005, at 15:30, Josh Ockert wrote:
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>>Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be
    > >>>to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had you
    > >>>tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't exist
    > >>>under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would
    > >>>have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for
    > >>>packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment
    > >>>variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the
    > >>>archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the
    > >>>man page.
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>My recommendation would be:
    > >>>o Set PACKAGESITE to:
    > >>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/
    > >>>o pkg_add -rf portupgrade
    > >>>o portupgrade -arfP
    > >>>
    > >>
    > >>Ok thanks. I have done this...
    > >>setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
    > >>packages-5-stable/
    > >>and im still getting the same error.
    > >>
    > >
    > >Show us the error, it can't be precisely the same one since you
    > >changed the environment variable.
    >
    > i set the PACKAGESITE... then
    > pkg_add -r gnome2
    >
    > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
    > packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., not found, no
    > access)
    > pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/
    > i386/packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz' by URL

    Indeed, there is no such file in this directory. You're missing a
    Latest/.

    Kris

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