From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 22:17:14 2005 Return-Path: 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 2C3E016A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-core.space2u.com (mail-core.space2u.com [62.20.1.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A05743D1F for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:17:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@dagerot.com) Received: from localhost (www-core.space2u.com [62.20.1.180]) by mail-core.space2u.com (8.13.3/8.13.2) with ESMTP id j1AMH9HT004504; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:17:09 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:17:09 +0100 Message-Id: <200502102217.j1AMH9HT004504@mail-core.space2u.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Joachim Dagerot" To: Kent Stewart Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messed up my ports - "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server." X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:17:14 -0000 On 2005-02-10 Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:14 am, Joachim Dagerot wrote: >> I have probably done something sometime on my 2 year+ server >> installation that wrecked my port installation. >> >> Whenever I try to install a port I get the "Can't find the >> `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server." the same goes with >> "sysinstall -> configure -> Distributions" I have tried multiple >> servers including the main. With the same result. >> >> I really don't know what to do. Any help is appreciated! >> > >Ports don't go by releases like you are trying to do. If you look at >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ >You will see that nothing before 5.2 is there now. The current set of >packages, which is what you are loading, would be located in >packages-5-stable. > >Are you really still using 5.1? That was not considered a production >release. The current version is 5.3 and was the first to be given the >name of 5-stable. Thanks for your answer. I managed to install the ports distribution by the help of another mail. But yes I think I am using the 5.1 release. Don't ask me how or why. I have been running cvsup for all the ports now and then for a couple of years and everytime there's a lot of changes coming in. I am just a unix guy that likes my shell. I don't know and don't have too much interest in following the development paths and all the various tags. When I installed my 5.1 everyone said I should go for 4x but I didn't and it has never failed me. Now when you're pointing out that I run such an old version I googled a bit to find how to upgrade but to be honest, I still really don't get it, but I'll post a new mail about that.