On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:04:23PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: [...] > Of course, the other possibility might be that the mirror might > implement some FTP commands pkg_add needs differently or not at all.
I'm pretty sure it's something like this. For example (using snapshots, because I'm running -current, but on an OpenBSD-4.4 machien I got the same results): $ PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/ pkg_add -ni ytree /usr/sbin/pkg_add should be run as root Can't resolve ytree $ PKG_PATH=ftp://openbsd.ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/ pkg_add -ni ytree /usr/sbin/pkg_add should be run as root Pretending to add ytree-1.89 /dev/wd0e: 338 bytes /dev/wd0f: 154656 bytes However: $ pkg_add -ni ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/ytree-1.89 /usr/sbin/pkg_add should be run as root Pretending to add ytree-1.89 /dev/wd0e: 338 bytes /dev/wd0f: 154656 bytes Since the OP mentioned somewhere else that it worked earlier (with OpenBSD-4.4) and suddenly doesn't work any longer (with OpenBSD-4.4, but as you can see above, as you can see above), something must have been changed on the freenet mirror that now breaks pkg_add(8) or triggers some hidden bug or shortcoming in it. Ciao, Kili -- Everytime one forgets an argument in a printf-like function call, God kills a kitten. Commiters, please think of the kittens when working on code. -- Miod Vallat
