From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 12:47: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9711837B400 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07083; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:47:00 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB1F3B4.6020308@owt.com> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:47:00 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Reber Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup problem References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020408134539.02c41010@atltechgroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Scott Reber wrote: > > I am trying to update the ports collection on a 4.2 box. > (4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Feb 16 18:10:23 EST 2001) > I have downloaded the cvsup-16.1e package from > http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ . > > I have done a 'pkg_add cvsup-16.1e'. The dates on the binaries seem to > indicate the package was successfully added as does pkg_info. > > ls -l /usr/local/bin/cvsup > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 873852 Sep 19 2001 /usr/local/bin/cvsup > pkg_info | grep cvs > cvsup-16.1e A general network file distribution system optimized > for CVS > > > I when I run cvsup I still get: > cvsup -g -L 2 MIMAS_ports-supfile > Parsing supfile "MIMAS_ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup11.FreeBSD.org > Connected to cvsup11.FreeBSD.org > Protocol negotiation failed: See > http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/s1g/ for upgrading > information. > > What have I done wrong? Probably nothing. If you try the telnet session like is done to see which version that site is using, you will find the connection is refused. Cvsup11 may be having problems and you should try one of the other mirrors. Cvsup-16.1e will not connect to a buggy host (pre 16.1d) and none of the USA sites have that problem. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message