Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 07:35:05 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetch Message-ID: <20050524193505.GE20699@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <000501c55fc7$e4f10ae0$6601a8c0@GRANT> References: <000501c55fc7$e4f10ae0$6601a8c0@GRANT>
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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:36PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed 5.2.1 Release on a nice new box. everything works
> except I cant Fetch any port.
>
> "Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >>port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again."
My guess would be that since 5.2.1 is more than a year old, all the
popular ports that came with it are WAY, WAY out of date; and have had
all the distfiles moved. Why don't you recvsup your ports tree and try
again.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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