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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:38:43 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Wonderful One <hellaenergy@hellaweb.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Sftp Port
Message-ID:  <20010105113843.F15744@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBLEAIKDEGHDGAPLJMCELLCLAA.hellaenergy@hellaweb.com>; from hellaenergy@hellaweb.com on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:23:14PM -0600
References:  <NEBBLEAIKDEGHDGAPLJMCELLCLAA.hellaenergy@hellaweb.com>

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* Wonderful One <hellaenergy@hellaweb.com> [010105 11:29] wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD-Security,
> 
> Who here has installed sftp from the FreeBSD port and had success? I have
> tried and all I seem to get are problems. What I did was download the
> sftp.tar and then copied the pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ftp/sftp
> into /usr/ports/ftp. Then I cd’ed in to /usr/ports/ftp/sftp and typed make.
> Here is what happens:
> 
> make
> >> .tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.xbill.org/pub/sftp/.
> grep: /usr/ports/ftp/sftp/files/md5: No such file or directory
> fetch: pub/sftp/.tar.gz: cannot get remote modification time
> fetch: ftp://ftp.xbill.org/pub/sftp/.tar.gz: FTP error:
> fetch: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> >> Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> grep: /usr/ports/ftp/sftp/files/md5: No such file or directory
> fetch: pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.tar.gz: cannot get remote modification
> time
> fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.tar.gz: FTP error:
> fetch: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.

Something is seriously hosed with your ports system, I would
recommend reading the documentation on how to get the ports
tree setup using cvsup.

This sort of message does not belong on FreeBSD-security.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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