Re: xmms missing form /stand/sysinstall

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:11:53PM -0700, Phillip Remaker wrote:

> I was surprised to see that XMMS was NOT in the audio packages section, 
> but  alot of XMMS related tools were.  So I tried to install the tools, 
> figuring XMMS would be picked up as a dependency.  No luck, cryptic errors.

Not sure why this is..you didnt mention what release.  Perhaps the
port wasn't buildable at the time of release.

> I ended up manually locating the package and running pkg_add.  The 
> package name was
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/packages/audio/xmms-1.2.7_2.tgz
> 
> So I'm GUESSING that the underscore gives sysinstall heartburn?  Pardon 
> me for not digging into the source 8-( but I figure comeone on the list 
> might care.  Point me elsewhere of appropriate.

No, it's certainly not the '_' (that's part of the version number).

> Another question for the maintainers of sysinstall:  How about CACHING 
> the INDEX when retreived over the network?  I had do download the same 
> index dozens of times, and I think a local copy is in order, even if it 
> only has a 15 minute lifetime, with a user option to refresh from the 
> net if needed.

sysinstall is designed to be used from floppy..there's no space to
store it then.  I don't know if it could be done different in other
cases.

Kris

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