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On Wednesday 21 July 2004 03:53 pm, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> [Kent Stewart, 2004-07-21]
>
> >  I saw the 10 field messages for a short time yesterday but don't
> >
> >  Do you have any options in your /etc/make.conf to specify any
> > features?
>
> It now seems to work. All I did was to cvsup again.
>
> It seems that most people experienced this yesterday. Could it be
> that I'm fetching the ports collection from a mirror, and that this
> is causing a time delay in the distribution of the files?
>
> Anyway... all's good now :)
>
>

If you aren't an official mirror you have to cvsup from a mirror.

Sometimes mirrors break. The only way to find out is to try a different 
one. The port fastest_cvsup is a good starting point. Just remember 
that the closest may not produce the overall fastest cvsup.

Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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