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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install by ftp: *many* packages missing!
Date: 7 Jan 1997 00:00:49 GMT
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rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) wrote:

> Just got done installing 2.1.6 over ftp.
> 
> When adding packages, I found that *many* of the packages that came up
> in the index were not actually installable -- repeated attempts always
> failed (while other packages installed with no problem).

That's probably because there are no packages at all for them (for
various possible reasons).  However, the INDEX file presented was
actually the _ports_ INDEX file, so it mentioned everything that can
be found in the ports, regardless of whether a package existed or not.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)