pkg_add problems after upgrading to 9.1-RELEASE and a fix

[Bas Smeelen]

On 02/20/2013 12:20 PM, paranormal wrote:
> And there was an unofficial pkg repository, I can't find where, it was
> mentioned recently.

There was a message on the stable list
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-February/072037.html


> On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 11:03 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
>> Hi all, yesterday i updated my server to 9.1-RELEASE from 8.3. After that, while recompiling the ports and packages i get a lot off errors trying to get 9.1-RELESASE packages and all recompiled from ports.
>>
>> The problem is that there's no 9.1-RELEASE directory in ftp.freebsd.org server. I solved it after changing the path to fetch from 9-STABLE instead. A better fix i think it's to add that directory or make a ln to stable.
>>
>> The url where add the fault directory is:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
>>
>> the fault directoy is :
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/
>>
>> An example of the error is:
>>
>> root at camibar:/usr/ports/www # pkg_add -r zen-cart
>> Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/zen-cart.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/zen-cart.tbz' by URL
>>
>> I made the recompilation of ports with portmaster as noted in 'man portmaster' with this options (from memory, it's not a c&p)
>>
>> #portmaster -P -R -D `cat /root/installed_ports_list`
>>
>> Thanks In Advance
>>
>> ---   ---
>> Eduardo Morras <emorrasg at yahoo.es>