PowerPC Packages [wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng url example misleading about .../latest usage]

[Mark Millard]

The pkgng wiki ( https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng ) seems to be misleading on the issue of including vs. not including /latest in http.../latest in that it lists:

url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest"

so when I was looking around it did not suggest that I remove the "/Latest" suffix from the url that I had: it instead suggested to me that it should be included. (Took me a while to find where I'd seen "/latest" listed when I was looking around.)

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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net

On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:

I was too literal about using the "Download: Packages" link that was listed on
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/powerpc-10-packages/ . I should have
stuck with http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/powerpc-10-packages .

The web page for http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/powerpc-10-packages/
does not mention or list digests.txz (or packgesite.txz). (If it had I probably would
have figured this out quickly by seeing the file listed at that level.) I see now that I
should expect digests.txz and packagesite.txz to be one level up from the .txz's for
the packages themselves (even if I can not see those two files).

Looking a the list of log files ( http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/powerpc-10-packages/logs )
shows digest.txz is valid but just happens to be only one character different from the digests.txz name.

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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net