From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 13 10:26:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA05219 for current-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:26:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.ase.dowjones.com (ns.ase.dowjones.com [206.112.106.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA05214 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:26:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbriggs@ase.dowjones.com) Received: from CRYSTAL-SINGER.ase.dowjones.com (crystal-singer.ase.dowjones.com [206.112.106.85]) by ns.ase.dowjones.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA02538; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:25:55 -0600 (CST) From: rbriggs@ase.dowjones.com (Robert_Briggs) To: Tom Cc: Kingson Gunawan , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with /stand/sysinstall Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:25:56 GMT Message-ID: <346b4593.766553171@mail> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA05215 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:18:38 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > >On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Kingson Gunawan wrote: > >> It seems that my -current sysinstall copy is looking for the 971022-SNAP >> distribution which is no longer there. As a result, it is not working >> anymore when used to install packages. >> Any idea how get around this? > > A "make world" does not update /stand/*. Your /stand/sysinstall is very >old. I believe you can set the directory in options display. > > Or you could just use "pkg_add" Is there a way to update /stand/* and/or keep it updated? It would be nice if sysinstall somehow "knew" what -current is..... ===Bob Briggs