Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:07:51 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: where have all the ports & sysinstall packages gone ?? Message-ID: <002001c06594$48cd6780$837e03cb@dougy> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012140016170.1799-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>
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> I don't know which mirrors have packages, but I usually login to the main > site when looking for packages. Yeah, I've found thats been the most reliable one in the past, however we are having diabolicals with the PSTN network here in OZ & I've been trying every other mirror on the planet in a search for something that will download faster than 30 bytes / second. There is a mirror not far from here (University of Queensland / ftp.au.freebsd.org) that is relatively fast, but their 4.2 stuff has a broken index or something so nothing will come from there. > > eg where can I get a port or a package for apache 1.3.14 ?? > > >From that line above and other problems you mentioned it sounds as if you > may not have updated your ports tree. > > Did you use cvsup to update your port tree? No ..... I haven't a clue about CVS stuff. I haven't needed it previously because I usually install from CD & everything I've needed was on previous version CD's. For some reason the 4.2 CD's don't have all the stuff that 3.2 or 4.1 had. I have had a quick look at CVS docs lately, but at first glance figuring that stuff out appears to need at least a week with no interruptions. > I usually have much better luck with ports that with packages. > Sometimes the packages lack handling of some of the dependencies. From my experience its often been the other way around here, plus I've found the uninstall routines generally don't work with ports or install from source. I tried a heap of times on several machines to get imap & apache to work from ports but kept getting weird error about something missing or error 1 (whatever that means) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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