Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:17:00 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@ridecharge.com> To: Rem P Roberti <rem@remdog.net> Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portsdb Message-ID: <4704693C.8010006@ridecharge.com> In-Reply-To: <20071004041313.GA2141@remdog.net> References: <20071004033814.GA2069@remdog.net> <47046569.8070309@ridecharge.com> <20071004041313.GA2141@remdog.net>
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Rem P Roberti wrote:
> On 2007.10.04 00:00:41 +0000, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
>> Rem P Roberti wrote:
>>> Ok...this one must have slipped past me. I attempted to udate the ports tree with the usual portsdb -Fu and
>>> discover that there is no access to freebsd.org. What have I missed?
>> Its not just you -- try a mirror.
>>
>> If I didn't know better, I would say a router on the internet that
>> freebsd.org is behind is having issues.
>>
>> This has been sporadically happening a lot recently for a lot of people.
>>
>>> Rem
>
> Ok...it looks as though it isn't something on this end. I'm pretty much a newbie, and would like to know how
> to use portsdb in conjunction with a mirror. TIA.
Well normally you would use a mirror -- I misread that as cvsup not
portsdb. The -F option:
-F
--fetchindex Fetch the ports index file called INDEX from the
official site.
If you haven't tweaked your ports tree you should be able to just to
portsdb -u for now.
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