I have been trying to get the pkg_add -r command to work using the real full package names. IE: qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz
pkg_add -r defaults to going to pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/Latest/ and the name there is qpopper. Problem is I can not find any way to find this name spelled like that. FBSD handbook says to use http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html or http://www.freebsd.org/ports/master-index.html to locate the package name, those web pages gives the name as qpopper-4.0.5_1 So I am trying to change pkg_add environment variable to point to different directory location as shown below. Every thing looks fine, except pkg_add says it can not find it. Please review what I have posted below to see if I am missing something simple. Thanks Joe Using the following script, I can verify access to the FBSD ftp sites and download package using official name qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz This is my working script #! /bin/sh cd /usr/packages/ path=pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/mail ftp -av ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/$path/qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz Here is the output display messages from this script Connected to ftp2.us.freebsd.org. 220 ftp2.us.freebsd.org FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. 200 Type set to I. 250 CWD command successful. 250 CWD command successful. local: qpopper-4.0.5.tgz remote: qpopper-4.0.5.tgz 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'qpopper-4.0.5.tgz' (78312 bytes). 0% | | --:-- ETA 100% |**************************************************| 78312 00:00 ETA 226 Transfer complete. 78312 bytes received in 0.14 seconds (563.44 KB/s) 221 Goodbye. So I have proof it lives where I think it does and can find it and download it. # /root >setenv PACKAGESITE "ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release" Setenv is the same path as in my script. PACKAGESITE is the environment variable for pkg__add command. # /root >pkg__add /mail/qpopper-4.0.5_1 test without .tgz and it get's appended by pkg_add looking up ftp2.freebsd.org connecting to ftp2.freebsd.org:21 setting passive mode opening data connection initiating transfer Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/m ail/qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/ mail/qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz' by URL pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed # /root > this time test with .tgz # /root >pkg_add -rv /mail/qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz looking up ftp2.freebsd.org connecting to ftp2.freebsd.org:21 setting passive mode opening data connection initiating transfer Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/m ail/qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/ mail/qpopper-4.0.5_1.tgz' by URL pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed # /root > We know the error 'file not found' is incorrect because we just FTP to it direct, so it must be the ' no access' error, which makes no scenes. I know that 5.2 is being readied for release. Is pkg_add written in some way that the ftp server can ignore it's request for service and native ftp still gets serviced? Any in-sight into how FBSD ftp servers work or help on the setting the PACKAGESITE environment variable would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Joe _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"