Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:06:34 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Marty Landman <martster@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <445F7A9A.40607@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <70063950605080944v4d0c673cm3611ca0d2966d777@mail.gmail.com> References: <70063950605080944v4d0c673cm3611ca0d2966d777@mail.gmail.com>
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Marty Landman wrote: > I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133 > w/ 3 > GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are looking > for old, outdated packages, I think. > > So going from > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.htmltried > > to install cvsup to do a port upgrade: > > mrwilhelm# pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui.tgz: > > File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > pkg_add: unable to fetch ' > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui.tgz' > > by URL > mrwilhelm# > > Same problem though, how can I tell my system where to get access to > the 4.8stuff? > Somewhere back in 2004? :-D Seriously, if you can find any package at all, I'd try it. I don't know that cvsup changes that much. You can use fetch or FTP to grab from a newer location and add the package directly, e.g. # cd # fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/path/to/some/real.pkg.tbz # pkg_add real.pkg.tbz HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them.
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