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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:53:46 -0400
From:      Eric Pogroski <pogrose@twcny.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS
Message-ID:  <20031020145346.4029bdd7.pogrose@twcny.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <E78E51BB7B45C749B11C8B5BA64107E102567403@mercurio.cigb.edu.cu>
References:  <E78E51BB7B45C749B11C8B5BA64107E102567403@mercurio.cigb.edu.cu>

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:38:03 -0400
Osmany Guirola Cruz <osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu> wrote:

> I can not use cvsup due to restrictions on my network and i need to do updates of my ports. 
> how and what can i do?

can you ftp? or use a browser (relatively) freely? If so, go here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
untar it to your /usr directory, and you'll have a only slightly out-of-sync ports tree.

or.... you could attempt to tell cvsup to use alternate ports.



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