amd64/171344: pkg_add -r xorg fails for freebsd 9 system

[Scot Hetzel]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/171344; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com>
To: Arthur Sera <artsera at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/171344: pkg_add -r xorg fails for freebsd 9 system
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 08:40:52 -0500

 On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Arthur Sera <artsera at yahoo.com> wrote:
 >>Description:
 > After successful installation of 9.0 on a bare metal amd system I attempted
 > to install X11 in accordance with the handbook's directions.  pkg_add fails
 > with a number of missing dependent packages.  A sample follows:
 >
 > pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.904_3' failed!
 > Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/All/xf86-video-nv-2.1.18.tbz... Done.
 > pkg_add: could not find package perl-5.12.4_3 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package dbus-glib-0.94 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package policykit-0.9_6 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package eggdbus-0.6_1 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package cairo-1.10.2_2,1 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package gobject-introspection-0.10.8 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package polkit-0.99 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package consolekit-0.4.3 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package hal-0.5.14_17 !
 > pkg_add: could not find package xorg-server-1.7.7_3,1 !
 > pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'xf86-video-nv-2.1.18' failed!
 
 All of these packages exist on the freebsd.isc.org Mirror:
 
 # ftp ftp.freebsd.org
 Connected to ftp.freebsd.org.
 220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
 User (ftp.freebsd.org:(none)): ftp
 331 Please specify the password.
 Password:
 230 Login successful.
 ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/All
 250 Directory successfully changed.
 ftp> ls perl-5.12.4_3*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 perl-5.12.4_3.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 19 bytes received in 0.03Seconds 0.73Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls dbus-glib-0.94*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 dbus-glib-0.94.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 20 bytes received in 0.03Seconds 0.74Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls policykit-0.9_6*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 policykit-0.9_6.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 21 bytes received in 0.02Seconds 1.00Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls eggdbus-0.6_1*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 eggdbus-0.6_1.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 19 bytes received in 0.03Seconds 0.76Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls cairo-1.10.2_2,1*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 cairo-1.10.2_2,1.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 22 bytes received in 0.02Seconds 0.96Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls gobject-introspection-0.10.8*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 gobject-introspection-0.10.8.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 34 bytes received in 0.02Seconds 1.55Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls polkit-0.99*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 polkit-0.99.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 17 bytes received in 0.03Seconds 0.55Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls consolekit-0.4.3*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 consolekit-0.4.3.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 22 bytes received in 0.02Seconds 1.00Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls hal-0.5.14_17*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 hal-0.5.14_17.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 19 bytes received in 0.02Seconds 0.79Kbytes/sec.
 ftp> ls xorg-server-1.7.7_3,1*
 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
 150 Here comes the directory listing.
 xorg-server-1.7.7_3,1.tbz
 226 Directory send OK.
 ftp: 27 bytes received in 0.02Seconds 1.35Kbytes/sec.
 ftp>
 
 > The maintainer for the xorg packages needs to load up a bare metal freebsd 9.0
 > system and repeat the recommended command to download/install the xorg packages.
 >
 
 It's not a problem for the xorg maintainer.  The problem could be that
 you connected to a broken mirror, which doesn't have all of the
 9.0-release packages.  Do you know which mirror you are getting your
 files from?
 
 Scot