6.2 AMD64 Ports Problem

[Philip M. Gollucci]

forum at redpuppy.net wrote:
> I downloaded the 6.2 AMD64 disk 1 iso, installed it and updated the ports with
> 
> cvsup. However, when I try to install xorg it's looking for ports that are not in
> 
> the packages-6.2 folder. Instead they are in the packages-7-current or
> 
> packages-current folder. Is it safe to install from those folders?
Not on a 6.2 system.  They would link against libc.so.7 and you'd only
have libc.so.6 for one.

I did not have this problem.


> In an attempt to get one of the updated ports I put in the /root/.profile
> 
> "PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amb64/packages-current" and
> 
> logged out. But when I run PKG_ADD -r dri-7.0.1,2.tbz. It tells me it could not
> 
> find the port.
You want PACKAGESITE
i.e.
PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp13.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-6.2-release/Latest/

The trailing / is important.


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