Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:20:51 +0000 From: Angus MacGyver <macgyver@calibre-solutions.co.uk> To: Dave <friend@vortex4.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 FTP install Message-ID: <1104351650.26638.34.camel@yavin4.calibre-solutions.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041229001841.GB6164@vortex4.net> References: <1104277371.26638.11.camel@yavin4.calibre-solutions.co.uk> <20041229001841.GB6164@vortex4.net>
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Yeah, I have already done that once, and to be fair, it was not too bad a job. Trouble is, it defies the whole point of the ready built packages, and I would not mind so much if it was only cvsup-without-gui package that failed... It's ANY package I try to install via this method. If I have to pull down the entire ports tree, just to get a package installed because of dependencies, then this also defies the point of cvsup'ing only the ports trees that are needed in a working system. It also somewhat lengthens the time required to get a working system, not so good if one has to do a rebuild for some reason or another. I come from a "less is more" perspective, whereby you only install the programs/packages that are needed, any extra are possible security troubles, and having to go back cleaning up a bunch of dependencies that were required to build a program just to update the system seems like a lot of unwanted work. What also worries me is that if this problem has been known about for a while, why hasn't it been put as a bug in the FreeBSd tracking and been fixed. (or if it has, i can't find it, so can someone in the know point me in the direction of the patch or bug number if it has been posted) To pull down the list of available packages from an FTP site is a relatively trivial problem, and as such would be relatively trivial to fix, so why hasn't it been ??? It doesn't matter which site i try it from, granted i am not about to try the hundreds of mirror sites, but I have tried the master site, which if anything should work, and all the UK sites, none do... SO.. If anyone knows a workaround to this, other than pulling down the entire ports collection, unzipping it, making the package, then cleaning up afterwards, I'd be very very grateful. Regards AM On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 00:18, Dave wrote: > I haven't had installing a cvsup-without-gui package work from the installer > for months; I'd recommend installing the ports collection with the rest > of the system packages and then build the cvsup-without-gui port after > you've rebooted. They've toned down the m3 dependencies a bit...it still > takes a little while, but not the 3 days it used to take ;> Besides, the > cvsup-without-gui port isn't updated all that often, so if you grab the > ports collection via ftp you'll probably have the latest Makefile for > cvsup-without-gui. > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:42:51PM +0000, Angus MacGyver wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having one major issue on the install of 5.3 on an Alpha164SX. > > > > I downloaded the miniinst iso image, burnt all ok, and installed vai FTP > > (master site) ok. > > (used master site as the UK sites were giving me problems with not > > having the files for 5.3-RELEASE) > > > > > > HOWEVER. > > When I try to install pre-packaged files (for example, i want to install > > cvs-without-gui, and don't want to have to spend and disk space with > > everything that compiling this package would require) i get an error > > message as follows.. > > > > > > > > Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media. This may be > > because the packages collection is not available on the distribution > > media you've chosen, most likely an FTP site without the packages > > collection mirrored. Please verify that your media, or your path to the > > media, is correct and try again. > > > > > > This happens no matter which FTP site i try. > > > > I saw this as a problem in the x86 tree, but that was a problem with the > > FTP site... > > > > Anyone give me a hand with 5.3 for AXP in the same way ? > > > > Cheers > > > > AM > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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