Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Stankevitz
From: Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz Q2: Where on my hard drive are the bytes that tell pkg_add to use ftp.freebsd.org when downloading packages? You mean like inode number, which cylinder No, I am looking for a file name. Thank you, Chris

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-07-01 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:07:24PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: From: Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz Q2: Where on my hard drive are the bytes that tell pkg_add to use ftp.freebsd.org when downloading packages? You mean like inode number, which cylinder No, I am looking for a

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Stankevitz
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add/main.c static char * getpackagesite(void) which constructs URL using ftp.freebsd.org unless PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT are defined. Perfect, thank you! Chris

pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Stankevitz
pkg_add -r gnome2 This command fails repeatedly with broken pipe because the FTP connection breaks. When it dies, I just re-run the command. I'm now on the fifth attempt. The gnome2 package is a meta package that installs many other packages. Q1: Is it bad for my FreeBSD system that I keep

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Stankevitz wrote: pkg_add -r gnome2 This command fails repeatedly with broken pipe because the FTP connection breaks. When it dies, I just re-run the command. I'm now on the fifth attempt. The gnome2 package is a meta package that installs many other packages. Q1: Is it bad for