Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:06:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Walton <walton@nordicdms.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall not showing all packages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509120449.3051A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980509012816351.AAA234@mail.nordicdms.com>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Dave Walton wrote: > > Sysinstall checks /usr/ports/INDEX for it's list. If that is out of date > > then it won't show. > > > Hrm. Why would sysinstall look at my local /usr/ports/INDEX when I > told it to install *packages* via *ftp*? Besides, lynx is in there. The descriptions aren't available by FTP, or else it'd take forever to download each package, extract the DESCR and COMMENT files for each one. > On the other hand, you're on the right track. A quick check of > ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.6/INDEX shows that > lynx is *NOT* listed in that file. I dunno who is responsible for > updating that file, but looks like it needs refreshing. Wonder what > else is missing... It's possible that sysinstall verifies the existence of files listed in the INDEX. I don't use packages so I wouldn't know for sure. > Speaking of sysinstall... The "HTML Docs" menu item is hard-coded to > require lynx-2.7.2 to be installed. Is there some way to override > that? I already have lynx-2.8rel.2 installed. Yeah, look on the options page. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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