Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:23:11 +0000 From: "Darryl L. Miles" <darryl@netbauds.net> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: pkg_add for 5.2.1 no longer working... Message-ID: <421810AF.1030906@netbauds.net>
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NB: If this request is in the wrong forum please point me off to the correct forum or a web resource that may help me, I've tried to find both and this forum looks the most suitable. I have a number of identical FreeBSD boxes that were setup by my hosting company through virtually unattended base installs of FreeBSD 5.2.1. One of the boxes I sucessfully used the tool pkg_add to install a number of packages I require to allow the box to do its job, this was around 1 to 2 months ago. I am now trying to run the same procedure to repeat the ports/package installs on other boxes. However they are now failing: # pkg_add -vr joe looking up ftp.freebsd.org connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21 Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release/Latest/joe.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release/Latest/joe.tbz' by URL pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed Upon examining the main tree at ftp.freebsd.org all of the files i the 5.2.1 directory no longer seem to exist, some mirrors across the world seem to have the old tree that was there that I saw a few weeks ago. That was working well for me. # ftp -n ftp.freebsd.org Trying 204.152.184.73... Connected to ftp.freebsd.org. 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org. ftp> user ftp 331 Please specify the password. Password: cd 230- 230-You have reached the freebsd.isc.org FTP server, serving the 230-full FreeBSD FTP archive over IPv4 (204.152.184.73) and IPv6 230-(2001:4f8:0:2::e) networks. This server is also known as: 230- 230- ftp.freebsd.org 230- ftp4.freebsd.org 230- ftp4.us.freebsd.org 230- 230-This server is operated by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), 230-on behalf of the FreeBSD Project, with hardware donations from 230-Apple, Intel and Iron Systems. 230- 230-Questions about this service can be sent to: freebsd@isc.org. 230- 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386 [snip] ftp> pwd 257 "/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386" ftp> dir 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||45509|) 150 Here comes the directory listing. lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jul 14 2004 #cvs.cvsup-37462.728 -> packages-5.1-release lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 15 Jul 14 2004 packages -> packages-stable drwxrwxr-x 92 110 0 2048 Feb 03 07:18 packages-4-stable drwxrwxr-x 92 110 0 2048 Oct 25 03:24 packages-4.10-release drwxrwxr-x 92 110 0 2048 Jan 25 01:57 packages-4.11-release drwxr-xr-x 68 110 0 2048 Nov 15 06:34 packages-5-current drwxrwxr-x 92 110 0 2048 Feb 12 02:54 packages-5-stable drwxr-xr-x 92 110 0 2048 Nov 05 00:40 packages-5.3-release drwxrwxr-x 92 110 0 2048 Feb 14 08:14 packages-6-current lrwxr-xr-x 1 110 0 18 Oct 20 01:56 packages-current -> packages-6-current lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 17 Jul 15 2004 packages-stable -> packages-4-stable 226 Directory send OK. I'm a complete FreeBSD novice, and have administered a whole variety of MSWIN and Linux distributions over the past 13 years and have never hit suck a brick wall about a simple issue of installing packages that now seem to have vanished from the world. Is there a reconfiguration process I need to reconfige the pkg_add utility to download a new mapping of all the packages. Are they hidden somewhere else ? I only have command line available on the systems in question, while looking through the directories manually with FTP I noticed they aren't arranged in a very sociable manner, with 1000s of files in a directory alone. Is there an online web based system to allow me to see whats available ? Perl has an excellent system "perl -MCPAN -e shell" to allow for browsing, mirroring and installation of additional packages within the perl system. Wouldn't it be nice if the Free BSD teams were to take a leaf out of that book. At the moment the base Free BSD system is of no practical use to me, short of compiling all my own utils by hand. Any pointers would be much appreciated, Darryl
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