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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:22:21 -0700
From:      Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        'Maarten van Schie' <anera@dds.nl>
Cc:        "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Problem Installing Ports via FTP
Message-ID:  <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E0306D50C@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
In-Reply-To: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E02F47C6C@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>

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Thank you for your reply.  I have the hierarchy installed and use cvsup to
synch both the ports and my sources.  But I usually use sysinstall because
it give descriptions of ports.  Is there any way to browse the ports
collection in this manner?

Thank you,

Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anera@oT.o8.com [mailto:anera@oT.o8.com]On Behalf Of Maarten van
> Schie
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:28 PM
> To: Drew Tomlinson
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Problem Installing Ports via FTP
>
>
> Yes, the servers only contain RELEASE directories, so stable will
> not be found.
> (or you should try releng4.freebsd.org, which inhibits
> various releng_4 snapshots..but
> AFAIK they contain the release-ports, so it'll lead you nowhere)
>
> You could try to cvsup the ports with 'ports-supfile', farout
> the best way
> to upgrade or maybe even install the hierarchy because it is
> as up-to-date
> as, I expect, you wan't it to be.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Maarten
>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > For the past two days, I have attempted to view the ports
> collection via
> > FTP.  After connecting to the FTP server (I've tried
> several in the US), I
> > get an error stating "Warning:  Can't find the
> '4.1.1-Stable' distribution
> > on the FTP Server..." and then gives me a chance to connect
> to another
> > server.  This used to work with this version.  Any ideas
> what has happened?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
> >
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