From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 19:50:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEBA16A4D6 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:50:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3090343D2F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:50:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 4019 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 19:50:53 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.no-ip.com) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Aug 2004 19:50:53 -0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 303757D; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:50:53 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at References: <1093374414.982.1.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <20040824192210.GA9488@redtick.homeunix.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 24 Aug 2004 15:50:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040824192210.GA9488@redtick.homeunix.com> Message-ID: <44oel0iaci.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:50:54 -0000 Mark writes: > > > > > > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Are you behind a proxy?? I had a box behind squid once, > had to set fetch to look for the squid server Or maybe behind a firewall that is messing up FTP? [Maybe the fetches that succeeded were all via HTTP?]