Subject: pkg/33449: pkgsrc documentation points to wrong link for downloading pkgsrc tarball
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <kdev@no-log.org>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 05/10/2006 10:15:00
>Number: 33449
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: pkgsrc documentation points to wrong link for downloading pkgsrc tarball
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 10 10:15:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: Emmanuel Kasper
>Release:
>Organization:
>Environment:
Interix windev 3.5 SP-8.0.1969.1 x86 Intel_x86_Family15_Model3_Stepping4
>Description:
Hello
The documentation of pkgsrc in the paragraph of http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html#bootstrap
proposes by default to download to download a CURRENT pkgsrc tarball ( ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-current.tar.gz ) instead of downloading the last stable branch.
( ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/2006Q1/pkgsrc-2006Q1.tar.gz )
I think this is very confusing for a pkgsrc first time user. The first time I used pksrc on netbsd 3.0, when I wanted to install a new gnome, pksrc started to recompile the full of gtk, because I made a cvs update before for security fixes.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
As by default we should offer download with a link to the last pkgsrc branch instead of current, as we do for netbsd releases.