Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:04:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Do <pcbsdguy@yahoo.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1-RELEASE FTP site error suddenly Message-ID: <20050908180402.28747.qmail@web35809.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050908174346.GG49084@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Thanks Kris! I found a successful mirror site. You can FTP through a Windows box or other client but from FreeBSD 5.2.1 the mirror site I mentioned still doesn't work with pkg_add or wget (it worked about a day or two ago) whereas the one below does work for pkg_add and also wget at this time ftp://ftp3.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE/5.2.1-RELEASE/packages/Latest/ --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:41:31PM -0400, John Do > wrote: > > Here is what happens: > > > > pkg_add -r apache+mod_ssl > > Error: FTP Unable to get > > > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE/packages/Latest/apache+mod_ssl.tbz: > > Protocol error > > pkg_add: unable to fetch > > > 'ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.2.1-RELEASE/packages/Latest/apache+mod_ssl.tbz' > > by URL > > > > > > Even if I try to do a wget to the ftp I still get > an > > error. > > > > I am able to successfully wget from other FTP > sites. > > > > Anyone have any solutions? > > It works for me, maybe it was something transient. > > > Is there a mirror of the packages for > 5.2.1-RELEASE I > > can try? > > Try http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/ - it only lists > the release bits > (not packages directly), but if they have one > there's a better chance > they have the other. > > Kris > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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