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From: Jay Geeseman <jay@accufind.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FTP site problem - packages link points to nonexistent path
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>Number:         37634
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FTP site problem - packages link points to nonexistent path
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 01 08:40:03 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jan 07 01:35:58 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jan 07 01:35:58 PST 2003
>Originator:     Jay Geeseman
>Release:        4.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
AccuFind Internet Services
>Environment:
>Description:
When using /stand/sysinstall, attempting to use the package installation tool (configure, then packages) via FTP, the index file cannot be found.

The program sends this to the ftp server:
CWD pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386
CWD 4.3-RELEASE
RETR packages/INDEX

The packages folder is a link to another folder, but it is pointing to a folder that does not exist, thus rendering the tool useless.
>How-To-Repeat:
Just try to use the packages tool in 4.3
>Fix:
fix the symbolic link
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "mark a. matienzo" <matienzo@umich.edu>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>, <jay@accufind.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/37634: FTP site problem - packages link points to
	nonexistent path
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:19:14 -0400

 This problem seems to have been solved for every release except 4.5-RELEASE.
 
 
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 Mark A. Matienzo || matienzo@umich.edu || PO Box 4405 || Ann Arbor MI 48106
 Candidate, Master of Science in Information (Archives & Records Management)
 Vice President, Society of American Archivists Student Chapter, U. of Mich.
 Library Assistant, Labadie Collection, Special Collections Lib., UM Library
 Intern, Vincent Voice Library, Digital & Multimedia Ctr., Michigan State U.
 Resume and Past Projects: http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~matienzo
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: tom 
State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 24 11:36:14 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
FreeBSD's FTP servers only carry recent releases of FreeBSD.  This 
includes packages.  Therefore, packages for older releases are no longer 
available.  Can you reproduce this problem with newer a release? 

Thanks for your report. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37634 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: tom 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 7 01:35:13 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Submitter did not respond to a request for feedback. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37634 
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