sudo pkg_add -r gives "Syntax error..."

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Pietro Cerutti wrote:
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> Hi list,
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> since a few days I cannot add packages with "sudo pkg_add -r " anymore..
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> Example:
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> | sudo pkg_add -r screen
> Error: FTP Unable to get
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/screen.tbz: 
AFAIK: you can't package screen, see the Makefile, but I think this is 
fixed and the restriction should be removed.

probably unrelated to whatever you are seeing, FWIW, I always use 'sudo' 
for this.

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