Re: pkg_add problem

From: eoghan (freebsd_at_redry.net)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:56:28 +0100
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>

    On 30 Sep 2005, at 18:50, Kris Kennaway wrote:

    > 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/.
    >

    Ah! Thanks for your help all.
    Eoghan

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