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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:31:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: Maarten van Schie <anera@dds.nl>
To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Problem Installing Ports via FTP
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Well, all ports contain commentive and descriptive files.
For a closer look you could read 

/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

you've also got another option to install the various packages, that's via
pkg_add and pkg_info with some options to install them or determine wether
your installed packages are out of date, this saves time because in
this matter you fetch binairies.

Maarten.


On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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