From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 13:52:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4FF37B416 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:52:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAALk6w50180; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:46:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <000b01c16a31$37f947b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" Cc: References: <006c01c1684a$6b372810$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108123434.GA5361@helios.soupnazi.org> <009101c1688c$ca403440$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108194551.GC49444@rhadamanth> <20011108145756.A15162@klatsch.org> <20011109190737.GC56791@hades.hell.gr> <02b701c1695f$88cb77d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011109222242.GA61765@hades.hell.gr> Subject: Re: Where is ftp.freesoftware.com? Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:46:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It doesn't work. This is what I get: # cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup # cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.gr.freebsd.org ports-supfile Parsing supfile "ports-supfile" Connecting to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org Protocol negotiation failed: See http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/s1g/ for upgrading information # I upgraded cvsup itself with /stand/sysinstall, but I still get this error. I checked the URL shown, but it isn't clear whether or not that is a newer version than I have; after all, I just installed the latest version (I assume) with /stand/sysinstall, from FTP. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Giorgos Keramidas" To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 23:22 Subject: Re: Where is ftp.freesoftware.com? > Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > Anthony, updating your ports tree should fix this :) > > > > And what is the simplest way to do that? > > There are various ways, explained in the Handbook. > A lot of people tend to prefer CVSup. > This, on a machine connected to the Internet, > essentially boils down to: > > a) Become root. > > a.1) If not done before, install the latest package for cvsup. > This will give you the CVSup client. > > b) Change your working directory to /usr/share/examples/cvsup > > c) Run cvsup to update the ports tree: > # cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.gr.freebsd.org ports-supfile > > Of course, you need to choose a CVSup server closer to you > network-wise. The cvsup.gr.freebsd.org server is close to me, > but might be suboptimal for you. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message