Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:10:39 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, <rshea@opendoor.co.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: upgrade from 4.0 to 4.3 Message-ID: <003501c0e2b8$856b8590$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <20010521003730.DD1361F9C89@deborah.paradise.net.nz> <20010520174848.A39141@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Doug's experiences with ports certainly are *not* typical. Is it possible that very poor connections could cause problems that appear to be a broken port ?? Many of our phone lines in OZ are dark age quality (eg 20 bytes / second download aren't uncommon), so its often a matter of trying several times to download something before its successful. I've been having better results lately by grabbing the source & either compiling it, or by putting it in /usr/ports/distfiles before running "make install". Thats got a few applications installed that appeared broken in several attempts using regular ports setup. (ie cd /usr/ports/whatever, then "make install") To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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