Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 06:00:30 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing ports Message-ID: <2F1E3E09-59A7-40A1-82A3-332ECAC40CEF@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <03e101c6e6ea$a831a780$8e11fea9@user1> References: <03e101c6e6ea$a831a780$8e11fea9@user1>
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On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Mbuthia Wangui wrote: > I have a bandwidth manager running on FreeBSD 4.9 LOCAL. I want to > install net-snmp so that traffic generated on the bwmger can be > pointed to cacti (like mrtg). My problem is that I have gone > through enough manuals to get assistance on which commands I should > run to install the ports hierarchy. I have even tried using the > cvsup utility but I get an error: "Parsing supfile "ports-supfile" > Release not specified for collection "host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org". It > doesn't matter which host I use, the response is still the same. > > Is there something I'm doing wrong or missing out. Will really > appreciate prompt response. > > P.S. Can someone please recommend a FreeBSD book for dummies. > > Thanks > > Phyllis Mbuthia > Assistant Network Engineer > Africa Online, Kenya > Tel: +254 (20) 243 775 > Fax: +254 (20) 27 100 10 > Email: pwangui@africaonline.co.ke > AIM: Zytuni Try something like this in your ports supfile: *default release=cvs tag=. Refer to /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile for a valid ports supfile. -Garrett
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