From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 5:13:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB58537B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA12316; Tue, 22 May 2001 22:11:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <003501c0e2b8$856b8590$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Kris Kennaway" , Cc: References: <20010521003730.DD1361F9C89@deborah.paradise.net.nz> <20010520174848.A39141@xor.obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:10:39 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug's experiences with ports certainly are *not* typical. Is it possible that very poor connections could cause problems that appear to be a broken port ?? Many of our phone lines in OZ are dark age quality (eg 20 bytes / second download aren't uncommon), so its often a matter of trying several times to download something before its successful. I've been having better results lately by grabbing the source & either compiling it, or by putting it in /usr/ports/distfiles before running "make install". Thats got a few applications installed that appeared broken in several attempts using regular ports setup. (ie cd /usr/ports/whatever, then "make install") To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message