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On Sunday, 3 August 2025 at 14:28, ci4ic4 <ci4...@proton.me> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I built the other day 11.99.1 amd64 and aarch64 and upgraded a few VMs; today
> I decided to try a clean installation under VMWare Workstation. The has
> worked fine for me previously and there is no issue in running it, but in the
> installation process. I have another VM I use for development and when I need
> to upgrade some other machines, both the OS and the installed packages, I run
> simple-http-server over the directories that contain the necessary files, as
> follows:
>
> #!/usr/pkg/bin/zsh
> nohup simple-http-server --ip 192.168.0.49 -p 3003 --index
> /bd/sysbuild/release &
> nohup simple-http-server --ip 192.168.0.49 -p 3004 --index
> /bd/pkgsrc/packages &
>
> I clean-install from the DVD image and configure the network settings of the
> guest, as usual; the network works as expected. The access is via http, the
> base directory is empty, the packages directory is All and everything used to
> work. However, the initial pkgin package does not get installed - pkg_add
> does not appear to find the package by name, the command
>
> pkg_add http://192.168.0.49/All/pkgin
>
> fails with 'no pkg for ' ...
>
> The same command succeeds if I run it from an already working 11.99.1 host
> using the exactly same repositories.conf file. It succeeds if I mane a
> softlink in the package directory called 'pkgin' pointing to the last version
> of the pkgin package. So it appears the installation procedure requests the
> exact package name and does not allow for wildcards after the package name or
> similar.
>
> The same happens if I complete the installation without configuring binary
> packages and try the same when the system is booted.
>
> Chavdar
>
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Just to mention, if I mount the repo over NFS, I am able to install pkgin;
subsequently, I can use pkgin via the http protool tried above. So the problem
appears only with pkg_add not accepting partial package spec over http.
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