Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:48:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages-5.X-current & sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408041745050.23758@gwdu05.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20040804132423.GG63129@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20040804125829.GF63129@comp.chem.msu.su> <20040804132423.GG63129@comp.chem.msu.su>
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Hi, On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:58:29PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > A fellow admin reported to me, and I verified, that sysinstall > > cannot install packages from the FTP mirrors in 5.x-current, > > where x > 0, without manual tweaking: > [...] > > The problem stems from the fact that there is no such subdirectory > > as packages-5.[12...]-current in ports/<arch> on the ftp sites; only > > packages-5.0-current is there. IMHO there should be symlinks for > > packages-5.[12...]-current to packages-5.0-current as long as the > > packages are shared among all 5.X-CURRENT systems, shouldn't they? > > Personally, I feel that the symlink solution would be more natural > > than hardcoding sysinstall to use `packages-5.0-current' if the > > system is 5.X-CURRENT. > > Oops, there was a slip in my previous posting; in fact, sysinstall > tries to access the packages directory on an FTP mirror as > `<mirror root>/releases/<arch>/<release>/packages', > but there are directories for 5.0-CURRENT only, e.g., > `/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT'. However, the essence of > the problem remains the same. emoenke@ftp:2 17:44:11 /mirr/bin > du -sk /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/* 218320 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE 206516 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE 8 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT 216392 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.1-RELEASE 216952 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE 4626780 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES 4 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/README.TXT emoenke@ftp:2 17:44:52 /mirr/bin > Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
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