Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 08:34:16 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> To: Lynn Steven Killingsworth <quiet.rainbows.llc@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Availability of downloads Message-ID: <20130407083416.6615acff@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <5160C9E9.1010808@gmail.com> References: <5160C9E9.1010808@gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:20:41 -0400 Lynn Steven Killingsworth <quiet.rainbows.llc@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi FreeBSD - > Since PCBSD takes care of all these details this is not actually a > complaint. > When I was using FreeBSD the only server I could get packages from > was in Japan which did so every time although the packages seemed > rarely changed. > I discovered the FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT a few days past and since I > have 2 machines I thought it would be interesting. I pointed the > ports repository to the ports file in the 10.0-CURRENT but when I try > to fetch there are always missing packages which causes the machine > not to download any packages at all. If I just had gotten the Xorg > metapackage and KDE metapackage. > The kicker of course is that I told several ladies what to do and > they are still downloading after an hour. ;~) could it be that you fell victim to the switch from CVS to SVN? Erich
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