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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        drwho@xnet.com (Michael Maxwell)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems installing ports...
Message-ID:  <199904131448.KAA21446@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990413012909.A22843@drwho.xnet.com> from Michael Maxwell at "Apr 13, 99 01:29:09 am"

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Michael Maxwell wrote,
> I have installed 3.1-R from cdrom, and upgraded to 3.1-Stable through cvsup,
> etc...
> 
> When attempting to build/install a port, I cd /usr/ports/whatever and
> do "make install".  The "fetch" program starts, but then hangs and goes
> nowhere.  this happened on the 3.1-R as well as the 3.1-Stable. 
> 
> In the end, I have to ftp the file manually.  So far, I've gotten a port
> to install correctly only ONCE (I forget which one it was).  All the others
> I had to ftp manually, *then* run make install...
> 
> Any ideas?

Are you behind a firewall? Can you run 'fetch' effectively from the
command line? Have you ever had any odd problems from ftp with a
firewall or DNS?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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