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Subject: Re: Messed up my ports - "Can't find the `5.1-RELEASE' distribution
	on this FTP server."
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On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:14 am, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
> I have probably done something sometime on my 2 year+ server
> installation that wrecked my port installation.
>
> Whenever I try to install a port I get the "Can't find the
> `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server." the same goes with
> "sysinstall -> configure -> Distributions" I have tried multiple
> servers including the main. With the same result.
>
> I really don't know what to do. Any help is appreciated!
>

Ports don't go by releases like you are trying to do. If you look at
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/
You will see that nothing before 5.2 is there now. The current set of 
packages, which is what you are loading, would be located in 
packages-5-stable. 

Are you really still using 5.1? That was not considered a production 
release. The current version is 5.3 and was the first to be given the 
name of 5-stable.

Kent
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html