Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 00:25:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Alex McKeever <alex.mckeever@sbcglobal.net> To: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything. Message-ID: <2154F16E8C50A08C.36736E69-DDA8-42FD-8631-E86492151F49@mail.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <20180902000932.GA47243@phouka1.phouka.net> References: <826294696.2192772.1535822734294.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <826294696.2192772.1535822734294@mail.yahoo.com> <CAJuc1zOaFbVtj5DpFYTDH62S1AQ22K-9K%2BH6-AKNib52QEEVQg@mail.gmail.com> <20180902000932.GA47243@phouka1.phouka.net>
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=09I was running FreeBSD 11.1, as 11.2 has that stupid freezing on cryp=
tosoft0 (or whatever that=E2=80=99s called). Will reload FreeBSD 11.1 from =
the =E2=80=9CDVD=E2=80=9D when I get home (I am not at home to use it at th=
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On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 8:16 PM -0400, "John Kennedy" <warlock@phouka.net> w=
rote:
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 07:58:16AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On 2 September 2018 at 05:25, Alex McKeever wrote:
> > After compiling PKG, when I go to ports to compile anything (my eMac ca=
n run FreeBSD but not modern Linux due to the version of the Radeon GPU) it=
fails to retrieve any of the source tarballs for any of the software, desk=
top environments etc. I would like help to fix this, as I???d like to run s=
omething current.
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> How old is your ports tree? It it up to date? What sort of problems
> are you seeing in fetching the port sources?
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> Since no one else has reported any problems, it is most likely
> something to do with your local environment.
Alex, despite what the documentation says, I wouldn't try to build too much
using the regular make methods (or portmaster). There are a number of
dependencies that are incompatible that you can skate by if you use package=
s,
synth or poudriere. Unless you're going to heavily customize your options,
I'd stick with the simplest, packages, until you have a reason not to.
FreeBSD 11.2 is stable... what version are you running? If you're running
something really old, packages may no longer be offered and you should try =
to
upgrade, but that is a different problem. 11.1 and 10.4 still have some li=
fe.
As Jonathan noted, having an up-to-date port tree is also important. If
it's too old, you may be trying to grab tarballs that no longer exist.
Have you looked at chapter 4 of the FreeBSD handbook?
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
One way to update the sources is via the portsnap fetch/extract/update:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
The "binary packages" method is described here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pkgng-intro.html
If you're using packages, and you "pkg upgrade", you'll see something like:
=09root@rpi3:~ # pkg upgrade
=09Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
=09FreeBSD repository is up to date.
=09All repositories are up to date.
=09Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100%
=09Processing candidates (1 candidates): 100%
=09Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
=09Your packages are up to date.
My home ISP does something wonky with their DNS and I have some issues with
connecting to some resources, but that is trivially solved by changing my
DNS server. That typically manifests as unreachable sites or unresolvable
hostnames, which might match your symptoms depending on the "fail."
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