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Jim P wrote:

Do you have a link to something that mentions specific packages that show issues like this? There are quite a large number of packages and the binary builds for some are automatic (and do not remove the old binaries!) so it would really help to know exactly what packages are reported to not work.

I can give you a practical example: arping
From http://www.pfsense.com/packages/pkg_config.8.xml.amd64:

<package>
      <name>arping</name>
      <descr>Broadcasts a who-has ARP packet on the network and prints answers. </descr>
      <website>http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping</website>
      <category>Services</category>
      <version>2.06</version>
      <status>Beta</status>
      <pkginfolink>http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Arping_package</pkginfolink>
      <required_version>1.0.1</required_version>
      <config_file>http://www.pfsense.com/packages/config/arping/arping.xml</config_file>
      <configurationfile>arping.xml</configurationfile>
      <depends_on_package_base_url>http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/</depends_on_package_base_url>
      <depends_on_package>arping-2.06.tbz</depends_on_package>
      <build_port_path>/usr/ports/net/arping</build_port_path>
    </package>

As you can see the system looks for arping-2.06.tbz in http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/

Unfortunately, looking under http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/ only arping-2.08.tbz and arping-2.09.tbz can be found.

The following one-liner parses http://www.pfsense.com/packages/pkg_config.8.xml.amd64 and reports dead links in http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/;
some of the packages reported might be false positives referring to a different package_base_url than http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/ , but most of them ought to be actual dead links.

lynx -source http://www.pfsense.com/packages/pkg_config.8.xml.amd64|grep tbz |sed -n '/depends_on/ s@.*<depends_on_package>\(.*\)</depends_on_package>.*\1;p'|xargs -n1 -i{} sh -c 'curl -s http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/{} -o /dev/null -r0-10 -f || echo {} : Absent'

Regards,
Fulvio Scapin

Opss.
I forgot to quote the excerpt from the xml file.
Sorry

OK, I'll have a look at these.

All of the entries that were not found should be fixed now, or will be once the last build finishes (for mod_security).

All files are present now (verified with a modified version of that one-liner, I couldn't get that to work).

corrected:

lynx -source http://www.pfsense.com/packages/pkg_config.8.xml.amd64|grep tbz |sed -n '/depends_on/ s@.*<depends_on_package>\(.*\)</depends_on_package>.*@\1@;p'|xargs -n1 -i{} sh -c 'curl -s http://files.pfsense.org/packages/amd64/8/All/{} -o /dev/null -r0-10 -f || echo {} : Absent'

Verified the change. Thanks

Francisco Barocio Brasileiro:
Thanks for the formatting ;)

Ehm, errata corrige.

It appears that the newly (quite newly) added Postfix Forwarder Package is missing.