From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 14:21:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370B416A523 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:21:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D07BB43DE8 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:12:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 22355 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2006 14:12:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@70.131.98.204 with login) by smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2006 14:12:27 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: JKEX15EVM1nWqgr4Ye1cgH8FdM.gkx4ByJR_dAKOJhsWDXBRYERhmmDMu9Wf7wtdiBOqX5JUNJiCZ.pXN5nPVMK5o35iFI8vrbE9QDyryoIHdpql5WTimg-- Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD6F81146A; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:12:26 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id u+QJwPUG0GyQ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:12:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8F811465; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:12:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <455B2049.4050100@mikestammer.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:12:25 -0600 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Suhail Choudhury References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing/Upgrading Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:21:32 -0000 Suhail Choudhury wrote: > Hi, > > Why trying to install ports via "sysinstall -> customise -> ports", > whichever location I try, I get the following message: > > Warning: Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this │ x │ > │ │ │ FTP server. You may need to visit a different server > for │ x │ > │ │ │ the release you are trying to fetch or go to the > Options │ x │ > │ │ │ menu and to set the release name to explicitly match > what's │ x │ > │ │ │ available on ftp1.freebsd.org (or set to "any"). > │ x │ > │ │ │ > │ x │ > │ │ │ Would you like to select another FTP server? > > How can I install the ports directory on 6.1-RELEASE-p10? > man portsnap