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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: 

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	Konstantin V. Chuguev.		System administrator of
					Ural Regional Center of FREEnet,
	Joy@urc.ac.ru			Chelyabinsk, Russia.

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