Better pkg bootstrapping instructions?
Baptiste Daroussin
bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 13 10:23:34 UTC 2013
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:46:41PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Especially on -CURRENT, it's not going to be uncommon
> to see things like this:
>
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg please wait
> _http._tcp.pkg.FreeBSD.org
> pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:arm:32:el:oabi:softfp/latest/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found
>
> It would be nice if the next line said:
> "A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system."
> "Please install it from source using the ports-mgmt/pkg port."
>
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Would this fit, in particular the wording?
http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pkg-better-errmsg.diff
regards,
Bapt
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