From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 16:22:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322A237B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0G3200G018WNJ7@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.185]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0G3200FFP8WNN8@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:22:21 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: Problem Installing Ports via FTP In-reply-to: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E02F47C6C@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> To: 'Maarten van Schie' Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" Message-id: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E0306D50C@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you for your reply. I have the hierarchy installed and use cvsup to synch both the ports and my sources. But I usually use sysinstall because it give descriptions of ports. Is there any way to browse the ports collection in this manner? Thank you, Drew > -----Original Message----- > From: anera@oT.o8.com [mailto:anera@oT.o8.com]On Behalf Of Maarten van > Schie > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:28 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: Problem Installing Ports via FTP > > > Yes, the servers only contain RELEASE directories, so stable will > not be found. > (or you should try releng4.freebsd.org, which inhibits > various releng_4 snapshots..but > AFAIK they contain the release-ports, so it'll lead you nowhere) > > You could try to cvsup the ports with 'ports-supfile', farout > the best way > to upgrade or maybe even install the hierarchy because it is > as up-to-date > as, I expect, you wan't it to be. > > Good luck, > > Maarten > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > For the past two days, I have attempted to view the ports > collection via > > FTP. After connecting to the FTP server (I've tried > several in the US), I > > get an error stating "Warning: Can't find the > '4.1.1-Stable' distribution > > on the FTP Server..." and then gives me a chance to connect > to another > > server. This used to work with this version. Any ideas > what has happened? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Drew > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message