okay, figured it out adding setenv PACKAGESITE "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/Latest/";
to the end of /root/.cshrc then log out and in again seems to fix the issue. should it be "Latest" or "All" ? thanks, Philip On 20/05/2012 11:41, Philip wrote: > when I do "pkg_add -r somepackage" > the program gets the package from > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/Latest/"; > so it "just works". > > however when I do "pkg_upgrade -a" > I get > fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-release/INDEX: > File unavailable > (e.g., file not found, no access) > > how do I fix this? > [annoyed] > why doesn't this "just work"?; surely it's a bug when it doesn't. This is on > a freshly installed > 8.3 machine. > > I have done "man pkg_upgrade" and "man uma" and it refers to PACKAGESITE but > doesn't actually tell > you how to fix the thing. > [/annoyed] > > thanks, Philip > > On 09/05/2012 07:43, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: >> >> >> On 2012-04-30 12:20, Philip wrote: >>> >>> The problem is that the freebsd install isn't well patched because I >>> just can't get along with the package management as well as debian apt. >>> >> >> Can you be more specific as to what problems you have with FreeBSD package >> management - maybe we >> could help you ? an example would be fine. >> >> I agree that the current FreeBSD package management lacks features and/or >> works differently than >> you'd expect when used to the linux ones. >> >> But until the "pkgng" package management is ready I've found a simple >> workaround that in my opinion >> makes the current FreeBSD package management usable. >> >> 0) become root >> >> 1) Add the the "bsdadminscripts" package to your insstallation: >> >> pkg_add -r bsdadminscripts >> >> 2) make sure that you have a /usr/ports directory: >> >> mkdir -p /usr/ports >> >> 3) run "pkg_upgrade -a" to refresh all you currrently installed packages to >> the latest versions. >> >> 4) run "pkg_upgrade some_pkg_name" to refresh just the one package and its >> dependencies. >> >> >> HINT: -n option is a dry-run flag - shows what would have been done if >> command was issued without >> the -n option >> >> HINT: -v option is a verbose flag - shows more detailed output. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> /Uffe >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
