On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 08:57:28PM -0400, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > I've tried a few mirrors with the same results - this was the last > one I tried: > > export PKG_PATH=ftp://obsd.cec.mtu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/i386/ > > ...or as I was trying last as indicated below: > export PKG_PATH=ftp://openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/i386/ ^^^^^^ of course that one won't work ... maybe that's a typo but that's kinda the point.
since you're using ftp, 'ftp $PKG_PATH' should put you in the right directory. does it? > On 29 May, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > >On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:45:13PM -0400, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > >>I upgraded six machines from 4.6 to 4.7 recently, using the CD > >>to do so. I > >>then updated PKG_PATH and tried to upgrade packages. It fails > >>consistently > >>on all six machines, indicating that it can't find anything in > >>$PKG_PATH. > >>So I tried setting PKG_PATH to the main openbsd mirror, with no luck. > >> > >>It also fails when I specify an explicit package path, which is > >>odd because > >>I'm able to access this exact URL from the same machines using > >>ftp or links: > >> > >># pkg_add -uvvv > >>ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/i386/ratpoison-1.4.4p0.tgz > >> > >>Problem finding > >>ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/i386/ratpoison-1.4.4p0.tgz > >>No packages available in the PKG_PATH > >> > >>How can I resolve this or figure out more about what's going > >>wrong? The > >>-vvv options, per the man page, don't seem to do anything useful > >>in this > >>case. > > > >a piece of info is missing here: what do you have PKG_PATH set to, > >exactly? > > > >-- > >jake...@sdf.lonestar.org > >SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
