Did pkg drop ftp support?

Helmut Schneider jumper99 at gmx.de
Sun Jan 31 15:44:38 UTC 2016


Tobias Kortkamp wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, at 03:46 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > url:  "pkg+ftp://ftp.mysite/pub/FreeBSD/ports/${ABI}"
> > 
> > worked fine until ~2 weeks ago. Now I get an error message when
> > running pkg:
> > 
> > [helmut at BSDHelmut1064 ~]$ sudo pkg update
> > pkg: invalid scheme pkg+ftp
> > pkg: Cannot parse configuration file!
> > [helmut at BSDHelmut1064 ~]$
> > 
> > Was ftp support dropped?
>
> Unless you want to use SRV records on your domain, just using ftp://
> and setting mirror_type to NONE for your repository should work fine

Did so. Thanks!



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