From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 05:41:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B96EE8; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:41:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@FreeBSD.org) Received: from monday.kientzle.com (99-115-135-74.uvs.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.115.135.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FAF73E; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from root@localhost) by monday.kientzle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) id r1E5f4ev033427; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:41:04 GMT (envelope-from kientzle@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.2.143] (CiscoE3000 [192.168.1.65]) by kientzle.com with SMTP id u2uq9em7wipph4ic6ekxd39mjw; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: Better pkg bootstrapping instructions? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_AFA6EA19-570B-4668-9123-996304707E50"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 From: Tim Kientzle In-Reply-To: <20130213102329.GE44004@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:41:03 -0800 Message-Id: <47E5B100-C392-4F2A-8AFD-069A3C2B9D75@FreeBSD.org> References: <6E30CAD7-182D-48BA-BFF2-E56547989902@freebsd.org> <20130213102329.GE44004@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Cc: freebsd-current Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:41:05 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_AFA6EA19-570B-4668-9123-996304707E50 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:46:41PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> Especially on -CURRENT, it's not going to be uncommon >> to see things like this: >>=20 >> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. >> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y >> Bootstrapping pkg please wait >> _http._tcp.pkg.FreeBSD.org >> pkg: Error fetching = http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:arm:32:el:oabi:softfp/latest/Latest/pkg.= txz: Not Found >>=20 >> It would be nice if the next line said: >> "A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system." >> "Please install it from source using the ports-mgmt/pkg port." >>=20 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > Would this fit, in particular the wording? >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pkg-better-errmsg.diff Much better. Better still to mention the specific port name: pkg-mgmt/pkg (assuming that port name will be reasonably stable over time). Tim --Apple-Mail=_AFA6EA19-570B-4668-9123-996304707E50 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRHHjvAAoJEGMNyGo0rfFBrZQH/3/lh+MVFbDxX9bDJxxk103b O/lEbQ5rg0m+dQkJcp+t/rQUX7gqrwt/txlQrhQy4oWZj8ORqGZ3Cn5UfogxQm/3 1gPz0Q/UXT2roV/Bq/XxfkzrRgP5taRY7YgJEDWae0ipBVKzTMzQ4twUMGNlYHxV izKoVO6sX2M+1Xm0r8unEEGAf8pHWzXsnFTZX3yASVVRNd4ncRTUs5MIojAGDbLT 4ij0dsptPUvi3PBE3YsPA6XeAttRn24l/cNCAAO+nRS427S2SzkKVBdoeYaKEdld mUqggCRb8l3AHIssCR3xkl9uRFYlwMhPnoD8CpE9puVMZLFlDr86dGvoRrktQE0= =mZAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_AFA6EA19-570B-4668-9123-996304707E50--