On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:53:11PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > you didn't get my mail Peter... > > > > > amaaq> sudo pkg_add teTeX-base > > > Error from http://openbsd.cz/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/: > > > Successfully retrieved file. > > > Can't resolve teTeX-base > > > > > > (a simple typo. s/-base/_base/) > > > > And how do you expect it to know that? It would be like > > asking for Coke in a restaurant, and being given Pepsi > > (or anything else) without a warning. That's evil. > > it's not about the typo, i put the typo there so i get > the error message. > > so what's ambigious to me? > > the frist line says: "Error" > the second lines says: "Successfully" > the third line says: "Can't" > > that is like seeing a windows dialog box, frankly: > makes no sense to me. > > > i was trying to tell Marc to make the error messages > a bit more easier to understand.
Two things: the code to get ftp to display shit has been in for about five months now... and you report this issue only now ? Yes, it's obvious the `Succesfully retrieved file' is a GOOD message, but not one I get from `usual' ftp servers. The idea here is that I want to see some ftp messages, but not all of them, so that I can figure out what's going on. This is not perfect yet for two reasons: - the heuristics that decide WHEN to show the messages lack some information. This will be revisited after 3.9. - no-one except you reported `interesting' error messages like this... -> poor testing. What can I do ?
