Re: Better pkg bootstrapping instructions?

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:23:29 +0100
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:46:41PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Especially on -CURRENT, it's not going to be uncommon
> to see things like this:
> 
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg please wait
> _http._tcp.pkg.FreeBSD.org
> pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:arm:32:el:oabi:softfp/latest/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found
> 
> It would be nice if the next line said:
>   "A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system."
>   "Please install it from source using the ports-mgmt/pkg port."
> 
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Would this fit, in particular the wording?

http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pkg-better-errmsg.diff

regards,
Bapt

Received on Wed Feb 13 2013 - 09:23:34 UTC

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