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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.pixi.com!news.dod.hawaii.gov!paf-news.hqpacaf.af.mil!wrdiss1.robins.af.mil!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install by ftp: *many* packages missing! Date: 7 Jan 1997 00:00:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5as3nh$62r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <rreiner.852505195@nexus.yorku.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33752 rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) wrote: > Just got done installing 2.1.6 over ftp. > > When adding packages, I found that *many* of the packages that came up > in the index were not actually installable -- repeated attempts always > failed (while other packages installed with no problem). That's probably because there are no packages at all for them (for various possible reasons). However, the INDEX file presented was actually the _ports_ INDEX file, so it mentioned everything that can be found in the ports, regardless of whether a package existed or not. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)