Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 14:35:31 +0600 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add from FTP repositary Message-ID: <352B36D3.426BA39E@urc.ac.ru> References: <18864.891994724@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > ? Have you actually tried this? pkg_add(1) is supposed to be able > ? to automatically fetch dependencies over FTP based on the > ? original URL you pass it. I think you need to have all of the > ? packages in the same directory, though. > > Well, what it's supposed to do is take the URL apart and try > to figure out where its "brother" packages live. If there's no > packages/All/ directory on the site in question, that might be > difficult. > > To be honest, it's also been awhile since I've actually tested this > feature, but it *is* supposed to work. :-) > I'm getting that error message, when any depended package is missing: # pkg_add ftp://ftp.urc.ac.ru/pub/OS/FreeBSD/packages/All/cvsup-15.3.tgz pkg_add: make_playpen() called before closing previous pen: -- Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Ural Regional Center of FREEnet, Joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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