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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:31:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      ranjit@rugragging.com
To:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Retrieving packages ?
Message-ID:  <1040113889.3dfee0e1d6fa9@webmail.rugragging.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net>
References:  <3DFE0633.1090405@vortex.wa4phy.net>

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Hi Sam,

Are you using /stand/sysinstall to install the packages by ftp? I can't 
download using that method either. Can you ftp the packages and then add them 
with pkg_add instead?

Ciao
Bruce
Quoting Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>:

> I've run across some items I don't particularly want to build due to all
> 
> the various dependencies, and thought perhaps just doing an install of 
> packages.  I'm running 4.7-Stable.  When I try to grab the packages I 
> want, it fails (don't recall the error message, but I believe 
> "unknown").  I've set the version to be 4.7-Release.  Is there some 
> other tweak I need to do to be able to retrieve packages on a -stable 
> system from the -release versions?
> 
> Thanks..
> 
> Sam
> 
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