From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 21:48:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A34237B403 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.143.200.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.143.200]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9H4lcw28265; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9H4kmD06752; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:46:40 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Tyler Durden Cc: Free BSD-Questions Subject: Re: Sysinstall questions Message-ID: <20011016214640.O4437@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <004201c15210$32c4d7c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Tyler@projectmayhem.info on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:52:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:52:00PM -0700, Tyler Durden wrote: > Hello all, > > I have used /stand/sysinstall to install various packages through ftp. > > I am now interested in installing newer versions of the packages and would > like to continue using sysinstall to do so. > > However, if I try to access the current list of packages through ftp in > sysinstall, I get the same list of packages that I got the first time that I > tried this. > > In sysinstall, I go through: Configure>Packages>FTP>(choose an ftp > site)>(confirm network)>(it says that it is receiving index)>(I get a list > of directories. But the packages contained within are same old list that > I've seen time after time. It would seem to me that this procedure should > produce the current directories of the packages. The sysinstall(8) you installed with 4.4-RELEASE _always_ will look at the package listing for 4.4-RELEASE unless you tell it otherwise. Once a release is made, it is frozen. The packages for 4.4-RELEASE will never change. > Is there a way to refresh this list? I know that there are newer packages > available on the ftp site (I've poked around the directories with an ftp > client and found them). But for some reason, sysinstall always gives me the > same list. What am I doing wrong? If you go into the 'Options' option for sysinstall(8), you can chose which release to use. Thing is, 4.4-RELEASE is the latest release. I _thought_ I knew how to work around this, how to give sysinstall(8) the exact path to look for packages, but I can't seem to remember how. ;/ > If sysinstall won't update this list, I think I've found the alternative > procedure of ftp'ing the package, and using pkg_add (but I am much more > comfortable using sysinstall if I can. The command line interface still > frightens this newbie). That's what sysinstall(8) actually is doing behind the menus anyway. You should learn how to do it. If you've done it once or twice, you should have it down. > Secondary question: Do I have to remove a previous package before I install > a newer one? Or does the new package simply install on top of the old > installation without problems? No, ideally, you should remove the previous package first. The footprint of the new package may not exactly match the new one which means you may have files from the old one lying around. It _probably_ will not cause problems, but it could and some admins just don't like being "untidy." > P.S.-I've tried to send this message several times and it has yet to get > through to the list (yet when I use the same account and send it to another > list, it comes through almost immediately). Are certain domains being > blocked, or is there another issue here? Usually DNS issues. hub.freebsd.org only accepts mail from machines with valid DNS records for their address. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message