Re: fresh install of OpenBSD 5.4 on an old Sparc server fails to install wget

On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, dev wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> I had an old Sun sparc server and really wanted to install something
> current and interesting on it.  Something not Solaris/Oracle and
> definately open source and not linux. Therefore I arrived at OpenBSD
> and the install was trivial. Easy. I was very pleasantly surprised
> by that.
> 
> After install and first boot I was able to login via the console and
> create my user account with the usual .ssh directory contents and then
> ssh in no problem.  Great stuff.  Then I wanted to use wget to fetch
> the sources to GNU make. I saw that I had no "wget" in my path or
> anywhere that I could see.  So I did some hunting about and landed on
> pages that talked about pkg_add and the PKG_PATH environment variable.
> Therefore I tried this :
> 
> #
> PKG_PATH=http://athena.caslab.queensu.ca/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/sparc64/

Since you installed 5.4 you cant use snapshots packages. Replace snapshots 
in the PKG_PATH with 5.4 and all should be ok.

-moj

> # export PKG_PATH
> # pkg_add wget
> Unknown element: @signer 55pkg in SCALAR(0x101b108e210),  at
> /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackingList.pm line 306, <$fh> line 3.
> #
> 
> Am I doing the correct things here or am I way way off base?  I am very
> familiar with Solaris and how to install packages there as well as the
> Debian linux way of things. So just looking for pointers in case I am
> just lost.
> 
> dc