From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 21 13:36:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5790837B400; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 13:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE12643E31; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 13:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:36:26 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id D5BFABB34; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:36:18 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_add -r location for stable Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:36:18 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207211636.18581.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The pkg_add -r location doesn't seem to me to be as clever as it ought to be; or the package site doesn't have things installed as they ought to be. I wanted to upgrade my system, and my experience with massive portupgrades and/or with trying to replace packages and/or ports piecemeal has not been a happy one, so I got the clever idea to upgrade my base system with the usual buildworld/kernel/boot/intallworld/mergemaster thing (which always works so smoothly--major coolness points for FreeBSD here) and then pkg_delete -a and then go back and re-install all my packages. (I saved a list before upgrading.) In general, this worked pretty well, but . . . I thought that I could just "pkg_add -r", but it failed to find a lot of my packages. The reason that it failed to find them is that it was looking in (for example) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest which is probably a very reasonable place to look first, but it seems to make that it would make sense if it's not found there to look in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All instead. Or perhaps the problem instead is that Latest should be populated wtih more than it currently has. In any case, the net effect is that pkg_add -r doesn't work as automatically as one would hope at -stable. (I could very well be wrong but I'm guessing that the difficulty is related to grabbing packages while running stable, which I presume not to be the conventional way to do things.) -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message