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Date:      Mon, 08 Apr 2002 16:30:11 -0400
From:      Scott Reber <shr@1244church.net>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup problem
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020408162706.00ab3ec0@1244church.net>
In-Reply-To: <3CB1F3B4.6020308@owt.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020408134539.02c41010@atltechgroup.com>

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At 4/8/02 12:47 PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:


>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
>
Thank you for the suggest.  However I receive the same response from 
cvsup11, cvsup16 and cvsup1.  All three respond to telnet with

OK 17 0 SNAP_16_1e CVSup server ready

So, I'm still looking for ideas and suggestions.



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