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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:30:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Ports problem
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sysinstall uses the INDEX file to get a list of ports, I believe.  The
INDEX list is not updated as often as the ports are updated.  Also, if
you're installing from packages, not all packages are bundled with the
releases.

My recommendation is to update your ports via CVSup.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

Then, build postfix from there.  There is a cool port, portupgrade, that
can handle installing, updating, and removing ports/packages.  It even has
a feature that will rebuild the INDEX file for you with all the current
ports.

Joe Clarke

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote:

> Hello
> Running 4.2 Release.
> I am trying to install postfix, it appears under the mail directory in
> /usr/ports but not in the list that sysinstall presents. I have
> reloaded the ports collection but nothing gives.
> Clues ?
> Cliff
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