Christopher Hobbs wrote: > I'm a first time poster, so forgive me if this is the wrong list or if I break > etiquette. > > Fetch frequently fails for me when installing ports via "pkg_add" or directly > from the ports tree. Regardless of the port I'm trying to add, it almost > always > returns the following... > > Using 'pkg_add': > > --BEGIN SNIP-- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 160:0# pkg_add -r xpdf > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/xpdf.tbz: > Syntax error in parameters or arguments > pkg_add: unable to fetch > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/xpdf.tbz' > by URL > > --END SNIP-- ...
This is probably better-suited to the freebsd-questions@ list, but I'll take a quick stab at it. Could it be that you're behind a firewall or FTP proxy that doesn't support active FTP transfers? You mentioned you tried several of the knobs for fetch, but did you try the same fetch with the -p flag? fetch -p ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/xpdf.tbz -Proto _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
