From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 27 03:34:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4193316A403 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:34:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA1C43D45 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:34:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GdITo-00040d-VG; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:34:01 -0400 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost.localnet.local [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9R3ak03099021; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:36:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9R3ak2L099020; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:36:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:36:46 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20061027000754.86183.qmail@web58305.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061027000754.86183.qmail@web58305.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610262236.46586.lane@joeandlane.com> X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79e71ef8dbd999b2de48f5a7ec3929435f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Cc: Rik Davis Subject: Re: Ports collection issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:34:02 -0000 On Thursday 26 October 2006 19:07, Rik Davis wrote: > Guys, > > I'm a die hard freebsd user, but I am finding myself becomeing quite > frustrated with why you completely pulled the 5.4 ports collection off of > your ftp sites. > > When I try to use my /stand/sysinstall now and attempt to connect to you > ftp server, I ge the error that it cannot locate the 5.4-RELEASE packages. > Why would you remove a collection that is still in such high demand by > those of us that have yet to upgrade our binaries to a later version? > > I depend on that being there, but this is not leaving a very pleasant > taste in my mouth. Also, this is not the first time I have seen you do > this. What am I supposed to do now that I no longer have access to those > packages? > > Sincerely, > > Adrian Brooks > > Adrian, Use /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and create a cvsupfile. You can then selectively install src-all, src-contrib, ports-all and any of the various ports sub-trees that you need (but stick with ports-all). cvsup will get the proper Makefiles and whatnot for you. Email me if you need help setting that up. lane