On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > 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." >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > > Would this fit, in particular the wording? > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/pkg-better-errmsg.diff Much better. Better still to mention the specific port name: pkg-mgmt/pkg (assuming that port name will be reasonably stable over time). Tim
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