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On Thursday 30 March 2006 03:50, Ashok Shrestha wrote:
> Thanx for the replies.
>
> I read that I need to specify PACKAGESITE in order to use an alternate
> repository.
>
> Is there a listing somewhere of available 3rd party repositories?
> fruitsalad.org seems to be having problems.

In future you might try the 6-stable packages. The fruitsalad servers were 
particularly good because they built for each release branch and built all 
the packages needed by KDE.

Now I come to think about it, I didn't have a good experience with the -P 
option. IIRC portupgrade -P doesn't handle new dependencies very well, which 
makes it particularly unsuitable for installs.