From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 30 01:58:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967931065672 for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 01:58:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.145.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A658FC0C for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 01:58:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4U0xGO9026122 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 19:59:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:59:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200905300059.n4U0xGT6026121@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: portsnap can't access portsnap[124].freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 01:58:00 -0000 I installed 7.2-RELEASE yesterday. That was my second day's effort on getting through the anti-intuitive mess of the installer. I swear if 8.0 doesn't have a considerably better installer, I'll either stay with 7-STABLE or try to cvsup to 8.0-RELEASE. I've suffered through the process with 5.2.1, 5.3, 6.1, and now 7.2, and I sure as hell am *not* going to do it again. However, 7.2-RELEASE is up and running. I've csuped to 7-STABLE for everything except the ports tree. The ports tree I skipped because I usually use portsnap instead. I've made buildworld and a new, somewhat tailored kernel, installed the new kernel, made installworld, and so on. This afternoon I tried to run "portsnap fetch" and ran into a problem. Although portsnap[1-4].freebsd.org respond to pings, portsnap says it can't get keys from portsnap[124].freebsd.org. (It apparently does not attempt to get them from portsnap.freebsd.org or portsnap3.freebsd.org.) Here's a typescript of what happens. Script started on Fri May 29 19:33:32 2009 hellas# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from portsnap4.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. hellas# exit exit Script done on Fri May 29 19:33:46 2009 Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Is some portsnap service not operational at freebsd.org currently for some reason? Is the up-to-date portsnap trying to reach the wrong systems? I've now done most of the other configuration tasks for now and need to start installing quite a few packages and ports, some of which take quite a while to build (e.g., the ATLAS library, gdl), so I'd like to get going on that process, but I'd like them to be up-to-date, including a number of desktop X/Windomaker applications that are currently missing from my workspace and all of Robert Noland's frequent fixes to X.org. Thanks in advance for any help getting past this obstacle. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************