From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 16 17:39:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139AA16A41C for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:39:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cezar@arax.md) Received: from mail.arax.md (mail.arax.md [217.26.160.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9916D43D45 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:39:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cezar@arax.md) Received: from qvirtual (helo=mail.arax.md) by mail.arax.md with local-smtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DtqdW-000MU2-2o for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:39:38 +0300 Received: from [195.225.246.122] (helo=CAESAR) by mail.arax.md with esmtpa (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1DtqdV-000MTx-S9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:39:37 +0300 Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:39:19 +0300 From: Cezar Fistik X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0.1.33) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <192849794.20050716203919@arax.md> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <447jfqd9cs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <589103970.20050716131138@arax.md> <447jfqd9cs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re[2]: freebsd 4.9 and ports cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Cezar Fistik List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:39:21 -0000 Hello Lowell, Saturday, July 16, 2005, 7:05:55 PM, you wrote: > Cezar Fistik writes: >> I need to upgrade some applications with many dependencies on an older >> 4.9 system. I was thinking to start with ports tree upgrade but when >> I try to run cvsup I get connection refused messages from all cvsup >> servers I tried, meaning that there's no a fresh port tree for version >> 4.9. So, I'm a little bit stuck, I cannot get a fresh ports tree and I >> cannot get updated binaries through pkg_add either. What would you >> suggest to do in such situation. Upgrading the whole system to a newer >> version would be too much pain. I'd appreciate any advise. > "Connection refused" means that you didn't even get to *ask* the > server if it had updates. So you're doing something wrong before > that. Please show the exact command you used, the supfile, and the > output from cvsup. You are rihgt and thanks a lot for help. Only after reading your answer I realized that the firewall may be the reason for this behavior. And it is indeed. A simple rule change solved the problem. -- Best regards, Cezar mailto:cezar@arax.md