Why can I not get amd64/11.1-RELEASE?

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:23:38 -0400, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
> I am experiencing difficulty installing ezjail-admin.  Specifically
> when I run 'ezjail-admin install' I get this:
> 
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz:
> Permission denied
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz:
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz:
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> . . .
> 
> Checking out the ftp site I discover this:
> 
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz:
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> 
> So, what is going on and how do I fix this?

When I test this, I get a 404.

% wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz
--2018-07-12 01:25:08--  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz
           => "base.txz"
Resolving ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.freebsd.org)... 213.138.116.78, 2001:41c8:112:8300::15:0
Connecting to ftp.freebsd.org (ftp.freebsd.org)|213.138.116.78|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE ... 
No such directory "pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE".
                               ^^^^^^^^

It seems that the path is misspelled. Have a close look:
The 's' in "snapshots" is missing.

However, ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/
does not contain a 11.1-RELEASE directory entry, just those:

10.4-STABLE	Directory		07/09/2018 20:07:00
11.2-STABLE	Directory		07/09/2018 21:39:00
12.0-CURRENT	Directory		07/10/2018 02:02:00
ISO-IMAGES	Directory		05/09/2018 19:11:00



>  I can connect and see the
> files, I just cannot get them:
> 
> ftp> dir pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE

That's an entirely different path. Please compare:

pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE
            ^^^^^^^^

pub/FreeBSD/snapshot/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE
            ^^^^^^^^

The command

	% fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.1-RELEASE/base.txz

should work fine (it will download a 100 MB file).



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