sysinstall don't want to install packages

[Randi Harper]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 09:32 am, Stevan Tiefert wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've patched my FreeBSD to 5.3-RELEASE-p9. Afterwards I tried to install
> with sysinstall via ftp some packages, but sysinstall was saying that the
> 5.3-RELEASE-p9 isn't at the ftp-server and I should set in the options
> "any" in the release-field...
> My question is: Is this message OK or how should I install
> release-packages after a cvsup-Update of my release?

Why use sysinstall? Just use pkg_add -r to fetch remote packages, or build 
them from ports, which generally gives you a more recent version number. It 
isn't rare for the precompiled packages to be slightly behind.

Randi Harper
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