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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:06:54 +0200
From:      Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se>
To:        Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc:        FreeBSD mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Installing ports
Message-ID:  <1093374414.982.1.camel@dude.automatvapen.se>
In-Reply-To: <i2yqjp.ln6hfy@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>
References:  <i2yqjp.ln6hfy@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>

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Are your local ports-tree up-to-date?


> Hi!
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software
> using the ports collection. After typing "make install" everything 
> seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after
> a few minutes:
> 
> fetch time out
> 
> It seemed to me that the mirror servers are not uptodate or that
> some filenames have changed in the meantime, because fetching data
> from ftp-servers worked a few times. 
> But in nearly all cases I had to copy the files manually in
> /usr/ports/distfiles as "make install" finally suggested.
> 
> So I installed a new ports-collection with sysinstall over ftp but
> things haven't changed. I'm a little confused, because fetching data
> from FreeSD ftp-servers doesn't work too (remember that some fetches
> were successful!).
> 
> Please help me,
> Florian
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Florian Hengstberger
> e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at
> http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0025265
> ------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Joel



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