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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:57:56 -0500
From:      Ben Eisenbraun <bene@klatsch.org>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Where is ftp.freesoftware.com?
Message-ID:  <20011108145756.A15162@klatsch.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011108194551.GC49444@rhadamanth>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:45:51PM %2B0000
References:  <006c01c1684a$6b372810$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108123434.GA5361@helios.soupnazi.org> <009101c1688c$ca403440$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108194551.GC49444@rhadamanth>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:37:17PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Jim writes:
> 
> > You can install the package from sysinstall...
> 
> Thanks.  That worked, after I specified ftp2.freebsd.org as the FTP site.  At
> least I think it worked.  I'm not sure how to test to see if linux_base is in,
> but I'll look that up somewhere (there is no rush).  Even so, I wasted several
> hours on that today.

Are you keeping your ports tree up to date?  IIRC, you're running a 
4.3 based system.  Looking at the current Makefile for 
/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base, I don't see ftp.freesoftware.com 
listed.

<snip from the Makefile>

MASTER_SITES=           ${RPM_MIRRORS:S/__DIR__/${STDDIR}/g}
...
RPM_MIRRORS=            \
        ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/__DIR__/ \
        ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/RedHat/__DIR__/ \
        ftp://ftp.crc.ca/mirrors/by-site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/__DIR__/ \
        ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/__DIR__/ \
        ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/redhat/__DIR__/ \
        ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/__DIR__/ \
        ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/redhat/__DIR__/ \
        ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/redhat/__DIR__/

<end snip>

Perhaps you need to update your ports tree?

If that's the case, the short and sweet version of how to do that is 
here (see section 4.5.1 "CVSup Method"):

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

The more comprehensive explanation of using cvsup is here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

Have fun!

-ben

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