Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:42:41 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of date mirrors. Message-ID: <200708072142.41598.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <54865.220.233.133.84.1186532205.squirrel@email.buzbox.net> References: <54865.220.233.133.84.1186532205.squirrel@email.buzbox.net>
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On Tuesday 07 August 2007 19:16:45 Paul Myjavec wrote: > FreeBSD, > > I have just purchased a new workstation and have just completed a fresh > install. > > One thing this install has taught me is how out of date a lot of mirrors > around the world are, particularly in my case the Australian mirrors and > doing a bit of reading I discovered that so many fellow Australians are > simply turning to FreeBSD main sites for all there Ports needs. > > Upon emailing hostmaster@au.FreeBSD.org to find out what the story was I > received a bounce back message? > > Can something be done about this, I for one would be happy to help out if > at all possible. > > Regards, > > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" im curious to know if you are referring to taking your fresh install of 6.2, and doing something like say: pkg_add -r kde and watching it install kde-3.5.4 ?? or perhaps it was some other package, but the point is that the packages-6.2-release folder does not hold the same things as package-6-stable folder. or.. what exactly are you referring to, as being out of date? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com
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