Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:04:00 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portinstall question Message-ID: <200603301404.02055.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0603291850t8d8b119r9fc949f93bdf0f8f@mail.gmail.com> References: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> <20060329205814.GB42066@isis.sigpipe.cz> <79e2026f0603291850t8d8b119r9fc949f93bdf0f8f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 30 March 2006 03:50, Ashok Shrestha wrote: > Thanx for the replies. > > I read that I need to specify PACKAGESITE in order to use an alternate > repository. > > Is there a listing somewhere of available 3rd party repositories? > fruitsalad.org seems to be having problems. In future you might try the 6-stable packages. The fruitsalad servers were particularly good because they built for each release branch and built all the packages needed by KDE. Now I come to think about it, I didn't have a good experience with the -P option. IIRC portupgrade -P doesn't handle new dependencies very well, which makes it particularly unsuitable for installs.
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