packages-5.X-current & sysinstall

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:58:29PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:

> > A fellow admin reported to me, and I verified, that sysinstall
> > cannot install packages from the FTP mirrors in 5.x-current,
> > where x > 0, without manual tweaking:
> [...] 
> > The problem stems from the fact that there is no such subdirectory
> > as packages-5.[12...]-current in ports/<arch> on the ftp sites; only
> > packages-5.0-current is there.  IMHO there should be symlinks for
> > packages-5.[12...]-current to packages-5.0-current as long as the
> > packages are shared among all 5.X-CURRENT systems, shouldn't they?
> > Personally, I feel that the symlink solution would be more natural
> > than hardcoding sysinstall to use `packages-5.0-current' if the
> > system is 5.X-CURRENT.
> 
> Oops, there was a slip in my previous posting; in fact, sysinstall
> tries to access the packages directory on an FTP mirror as
> `<mirror root>/releases/<arch>/<release>/packages',
> but there are directories for 5.0-CURRENT only, e.g.,
> `/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT'.  However, the essence of
> the problem remains the same.

emoenke at ftp:2 17:44:11 /mirr/bin > du -sk /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/*
218320  /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.10-RELEASE
206516  /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE
8       /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT
216392  /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.1-RELEASE
216952  /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE
4626780 /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES
4       /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/README.TXT
emoenke at ftp:2 17:44:52 /mirr/bin > 

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)