Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:06:54 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se> To: Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: FreeBSD mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing ports Message-ID: <1093374414.982.1.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> In-Reply-To: <i2yqjp.ln6hfy@webmail.tuwien.ac.at> References: <i2yqjp.ln6hfy@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>
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Are your local ports-tree up-to-date? > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------ -- Joel
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