Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:22:40 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti <rem@remdog.net> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@ridecharge.com> Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portsdb Message-ID: <20071004042240.GB2141@remdog.net> In-Reply-To: <4704693C.8010006@ridecharge.com> References: <20071004033814.GA2069@remdog.net> <47046569.8070309@ridecharge.com> <20071004041313.GA2141@remdog.net> <4704693C.8010006@ridecharge.com>
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On 2007.10.04 00:17:00 +0000, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Rem P Roberti wrote: > > On 2007.10.04 00:00:41 +0000, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > >> Rem P Roberti wrote: > >>> Ok...this one must have slipped past me. I attempted to udate the ports tree with the usual portsdb -Fu and > >>> discover that there is no access to freebsd.org. What have I missed? > >> Its not just you -- try a mirror. > >> > >> If I didn't know better, I would say a router on the internet that > >> freebsd.org is behind is having issues. > >> > >> This has been sporadically happening a lot recently for a lot of people. > >> > >>> Rem > > > > Ok...it looks as though it isn't something on this end. I'm pretty much a newbie, and would like to know how > > to use portsdb in conjunction with a mirror. TIA. > Well normally you would use a mirror -- I misread that as cvsup not > portsdb. The -F option: > > -F > --fetchindex Fetch the ports index file called INDEX from the > official site. > > If you haven't tweaked your ports tree you should be able to just to > portsdb -u for now. Good deal...thank you very much. Rem
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