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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:09:04 -0800
From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net>
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Subject: ports directories are broken again?
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About a month ago I saw a problem where many of the packaged ports 
disappeared from the main and mirror ftp sites.  I didn't have time to drop
a message then, and just compiled them myself.  However I'm seeing this
problem again today.  And it isn't just this one package -- numerous items
that appear in the ports searches are missing.

neptune.sv$ fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All/frontpage-5.0.2.2623_1.tbz
fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All/frontpage-5.0.2.2623_1.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

neptune.sv$ pkg_add -r frontpage
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/frontpage.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

neptune.sv$ ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/All/
Trying 204.152.184.73...
Connected to ftp.freebsd.org.
	...etc clipped login readme
250 Directory successfully changed.
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> ls front*
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||13369|)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r--    1 110      0          250431 Oct 21 21:21 frontline-0.5.4_1.tbz
226 Directory send OK.


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Joe Rhett
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