RE: PC-BSD 9.1-RC3 pkg_add -r unable to fetch PACKAGESITE set!!

[madf78]

Hello again,

it seems that I am amazing in making bad manipulation lately and finally managed to erase my last post by clicking on save changes, well here I am again.

I have some issue with the sudo pkg_add -r (pkg_add -r and #pkg_add -r are solved by setting PACKAGESITE="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-10-current/Latest/")
Probably not the best solution but working

$sudo pkg_add -r xxx (or what ever file for that matter)
Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/po...atest/xxx.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

I also tried to download the patch by setting PATCHSET: pcbsdtest
#pc-updatemanager install testupdate
and I get the same error

I am wondering what bad manipulation I have managed to achieve this time?!
Any help would be apreciated

Thank you

[kmoore134]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish here? Are you trying to just
use pkg_add to install things? I know FreeBSD is rebuilding the package
sets for 9.1 at the moment, so that may be part of issue as to why none
of them are available.

[david_a]

I am wondering what bad manipulation I have managed to achieve this time?!
Any help would be apreciated

Just to echo what Kris Moore has said:

Always explain what result you want, not what method you want to use.

[madf78]

Thank you for your reply,

I am trying to install packages using: sudo pkg_add -r though I get the error unable to fetch.
So I am wondering what have I missed in the configuration?
Best regards

[madf78]

Latest update

#export PACKAGESITE="ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD"
#pc-updatemanager install testupdate
Using mirror: #ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD
ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD
DOWNLOADING: Testing Patch
fetch: #ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD/system...estpatch.lzma: Invalid URL scheme

[kmoore134]

You don't need to use the PACKAGESITE variable for "pc-updatemanager"
instead, put it into /usr/local/etc/pcbsd.conf

That should get you the right URL.

[madf78]

Thank you for your reply.

$cat /usr/local/etc/pcbsd.conf
PCBSD_MIRROR: ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD

But it does not solve the issue!
Something wrong with my link?
Should it be the full path?
ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD/9.1-RC...cbsd/packages/
Even if it is the full path I should specify the exact package name!

Well I think that would be solved with the final release, though I managed to solve the problem with a workaround.
The root shell on this machine was csh while the user shell was set to zsh.
Once I changed the root shell to zsh and added the export PACKAGESITE to the .zshrc file, sudo pkg_add -r worked, though I have a question:

The PACKAGESITE variable is set to full path :
ftp://ftp.free.org/pub/PC-BSD/9.1-RC...cbsd/packages/
and I need to input the full package name in order to install packages!

What should it be set to?

Thank you again for your support.

Best regards.

[david_a]

Once I changed the root shell to zsh and added the export PACKAGESITE to the .zshrc file, sudo pkg_add -r worked

I am almost certain that this was an accident. You changing to zsh did not change the mirror servers.

[madf78]

Surely not David, just csh was not properly configured, and since it is not my machine or one I usually maintain or usually use BSD I have to start the learning curve somewhere
Thank you for your support