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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:21:51 -0500
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>
To:        Suhail Choudhury <suhailc@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing/Upgrading Ports
Message-ID:  <20061115142151.GA62874@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <ca7cee960611150559g1822ae05k7f57ff423dac7e0a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <ca7cee960611150559g1822ae05k7f57ff423dac7e0a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:59:38PM +0000, Suhail Choudhury wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why trying to install ports via "sysinstall -> customise -> ports",
> whichever location I try, I get the following message:
> 
> Warning:  Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this ? x ?
>          ? ? ? FTP server.  You may need to visit a different server
> for       ? x ?
>          ? ? ? the release you are trying to fetch or go to the
> Options        ? x ?
>          ? ? ? menu and to set the release name to explicitly match
> what's     ? x ?
>          ? ? ? available on ftp1.freebsd.org (or set to "any").
>         ? x ?
>          ? ? ?
>         ? x ?
>          ? ? ? Would you like to select another FTP server?
> 
> How can I install the ports directory on 6.1-RELEASE-p10?
> -- 
> 
> Regards,
> Suhail.

By using cvsup (use pkg_add(1) to install it), or portsnap which is in
the base system.  The entire process is well documented in the handbook.

-- WXS



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