packages collection is not available (sysinstall)

[stephanelefou]

Hi, I just did a fresh reinstall of my 9.1 box and when I go to sysinstall - Configure - Packages - FTP - Main site, I get the following error message:

Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media.
This may be because the packages collection is not available..etc.etc.etc......

I can, however build ports normally using make install for example, packages are downloaded, I can ping the outside world, portsnap works as well, etc. Also, my /etc/rc.conf looks good and I added my router (192.168.0.1) to my /etc/resolv.conf.

What could be wrong?

Thanks.

 

[wblock@]

The old package tools are retired, or nearly so, and the last CVS server was shut down. But make install is ports. There's a huge difference.

 

[fonz]

when I go to sysinstall

sysinstall is dead, long live bsdinstall.

What could be wrong?

If I'm not mistaken, old-style packages are no longer available. You may want to try installing ports-mgmt/pkg from the ports tree, running pkg2ng (as per the pkg instructions), adding

WITH_PKGNG=yes

to /etc/make.conf and using the new pkg tools.