Error from systinstall while trying to install man page packages

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at miralink.com> wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at miralink.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Sebastian Tymków wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> You can set information in sysinstall using "Options"  and setting
>>>> "Release name"
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Sebastian Tymkow
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.  What should I set the Release name to?
>>>
>>
>> According to uname above, 7.0-STABLE (IIRC). Maybe uname -r would show
>> the appropriate value?
>> -Garrett
>>
>
> Everything looks fine here as far as I can tell.  I still get an error from
> sysinstall stating that 7.0-STABLE can't be found.  Since I rebuilt the
> kernel from src, should I buildworld on the box and see if that resolves the
> issue?
>
>
> [sbruno at ophelia ~]$ uname -r
> 7.0-STABLE
> [sbruno at ophelia ~]$ uname -a
> FreeBSD ophelia 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #9: Fri Jun 27 15:49:54 UTC
> 2008
> sbruno at ophelia:/usr/home/sbruno/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_15APR08/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC
>  i386

If you're installing from the net, and don't already have the
manpages, I'd do 7.0-RELEASE (or whatever it's labeled as for the
release copy). If you already have the manpages and you have the
source, cd /usr/src && make maninstall should do the trick.

Cheers,
-Garrett