On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:43:05PM -0800, Bob Eby wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm trying to follow this HOWTO: 
> 
> http://www.openbsdsupport.org/mail-spam-filter-anti-virus-web-interface.
> html 
> 
> to create an external mail gateway on OpenBSD 4.0 (It'll be "stable",
> when I figure out how to get there...).
> 
> dmesg version line is:
> OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006
> 
> About 1/3 of the way through the document, there is a section for
> downloading and installing amavisd manually starting with this command:
> lynx http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavisd-new-20030616-p10.tar.gz
> 
> However, I notice the package amavisd-new-2.3.2 exists in OpenBSD 4.0,
> so I figured "Why not just use that instead".  
> 
> So, I issued the command:
> sudo pkg_add amavisd-new
> 
> With the following result:
> Error from ftp://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/:
> 550 Failed to open file.
> amavisd-new-2.3.2:Can't find freeze-2.5
> /usr/sbin/pkg_add: freeze-2.5:Fatal error
> 
> What is freeze-2.5, and why would an OpenBSD 4.0 amavisd-new package be
> including it?  The most recent reference I see to freeze-2.5 is in the
> OpenBSD 2.8 release notes.  
> 
> And more importantly, what am I missing?  Does "-new" on the end of a
> package mean I shouldn't be trying to use it?
> 
> -Bob
> 
>

uran:tobiasu$ grep PERMIT /usr/ports/archivers/freeze/Makefile  
PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM=   No
PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP=     No
PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM= No
PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP=   No

freeze is not available as package, you need to install it from the
ports tree.

read:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports
ports(7)

Tobias

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