[nycbug-talk] pfsense and tor

[fastgoldfish at gmail.com]

Where can I read more about packages being better synchronized with
ports in the future? Is that something formally planned or in
progress?

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:21 AM, George Rosamond
<george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> fastgoldfish at gmail.com:
>> There is a bug in pfSense. I haven't figured out how to report it yet,
>> but here's the one-liner command I used to fix it:
>>
>> setenv PACKAGESITE
>> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/
>>
>> Then you can run pkg_add normally, like this:
>>
>> pkg_add -r tor
>>
>> or even better:
>>
>> pkg_add -v -r tor
>>
>> The problem was that there are no packages for FreeBSD 8.1 in the
>> usual location where we would expect to find them, and where pfSense
>> looks and fails to retrieve the Tor package. You can see for yourself
>> that there's nothing for 8.1:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
>>
>> I did some looking around, and I found 8.1's packages here;
>>
>> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/
>>
>> So, to make pkg_add look there instead, I just did this (which I
>> mentioned at the beginning of this post):
>>
>> setenv PACKAGESITE
>> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/
>>
>> I'm surprised such a fundamental problem hasn't been noticed before.
>> Maybe it has been noticed before, but there's no way to report the
>> bug, and so nobody bothered to fix it. That meant that only the
>> experienced users would be able to solve the problems themselves, and
>> newcomers like me would have to debug it and come up with a solution
>> from scratch. Voila! :)
>
> Manually installing packages isn't a normal function for pfSense.  They
> make it clear that it's unsupported in the documentation.
>
> And yes, at this point, FreeBSD doesn't keep packages synchronized with
> ports, but that should be changing in the (nearer) future.
>
> Also, if you go through the pfSense documentation, they explain finding
> the packages based on the pfSense version of FreeBSD you are using.
>
> But again, it's not a bug since it's not a supported feature.
>
> g
>
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