Roy Stuivenberg wrote:
Hello,
I have FreeBSD 7-RELEASE, and upgraded to point 7.
When I try to install packages/ports with sysinstall (FTP) it won't work and
give me this message.
Warning: Can't find the `7.0-RELEASE-p7' distribution on this
FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for
the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options
menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's
available on ftp.freebsd.org (or set to "any").
Would you like to select another FTP server?
I have already tried multiple ftp locations, but always get the same
result.
Search the web for answers, and did not find any.
Try setting the release name to exactly '7.0-RELEASE' as described in
the error message. There's a package set generated for each OS release,
but not one for each different patch level. 7.0-RELEASE packages should
be available on all ftp servers at the moment.
You can see the list of release names supported via sysinstall at:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/
(replace i386 with amd64 if you're on that architecture)
Note that this will get you package versions which were current at the
time of 7.0-RELEASE, and there have been a good number of updates
(including security updates) that have gone in since. Updated packages
certainly do exist on the FTP servers but I can't see how to access them
from sysinstall. Learning how to use pkg_add(1) (which can reach the
parts of ftp.freebsd.org that sysinstall apparently cannot) is probably
your best bet.
Cheers,
Matthew
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