Re: misc/49765: Official ftp mirror not supporting wildcard over http

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/49765; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/49765: Official ftp mirror not supporting wildcard over http
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:57:05 +0100

 On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:50:00AM +0000, jussi.e.toivonen%kapsi.fi@localhost wrote:
 > Host not found errors when trying to install packages from ftp.NetBSD.org during installation step "Enable installation of binary packages" or during normal usage of pkg_add with PKG_PATH set to "http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/6.1.5/All";. If the "http://"; is explicitly replaced with "ftp://";, installing works, but that is bad practice.
 
 Have you tried add a trailing /?
 
 Joerg