Bug 37634

Summary:	FTP site problem - packages link points to nonexistent path
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Jay Geeseman <jay>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.3-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Jay Geeseman 2002-05-01 16:40:03 UTC

When using /stand/sysinstall, attempting to use the package installation tool (configure, then packages) via FTP, the index file cannot be found.

The program sends this to the ftp server:
CWD pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386
CWD 4.3-RELEASE
RETR packages/INDEX

The packages folder is a link to another folder, but it is pointing to a folder that does not exist, thus rendering the tool useless.

Fix: 

fix the symbolic link
How-To-Repeat: Just try to use the packages tool in 4.3

Comment 1 matienzo 2002-09-16 14:19:14 UTC

This problem seems to have been solved for every release except 4.5-RELEASE.


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Comment 2 Tom Hukins freebsd_committer

2002-11-24 19:36:14 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

FreeBSD's FTP servers only carry recent releases of FreeBSD.  This 
includes packages.  Therefore, packages for older releases are no longer 
available.  Can you reproduce this problem with newer a release? 

Thanks for your report.

Comment 3 Tom Hukins freebsd_committer

2003-01-07 09:35:13 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

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