2009/10/17 Allen <gedankezaube...@comcast.net>: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:17:21 am Tony Theodore wrote: > >> I think portupgrade -a will have updated all packages to the latest >> versions, and pkg_add -r won't be able to find a newer one to install. >> Try adding a package that you don't already have installed and see >> what happens. > > Hey, thanks for answering ! > > OK, here is what happens if I try something like asclock which wasn't > installed: > > pkg_add -r asclock > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/Latest/asclock.tbz > File unavailable (e.g., File not found, no access) > pkg_add: unable to > fetch > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/freebsd/ports/i386/packages-7.1-release/Latest/asclock.tbz' > by URL > > So basically, if I try to use pkg_add -r now, it won't work. It didn't happen > until I did the upgrading or updating, so I'm thinking I made a screw up.
OK, so if you have a look at the contents of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/, it seems 7.1 packages are no longer being built. Not sure there's much you can do apart from using ports or upgrading. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
