Re: Quickie question

2009/10/17 Allen <GedankeZauberer@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.
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