From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 19:11:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9822816A4CE for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:11:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outbox.allstream.net (outbox.allstream.net [207.245.244.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A23043D3F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:11:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from epilogue@allstream.net) Received: from localhost (mon-pq54-163.dial.allstream.net [216.123.143.35]) by outbox.allstream.net (Allstream MTA) with SMTP id A5DDEEB506; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:11:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:11:17 -0400 From: epilogue To: "Florian Hengstberger" Message-Id: <20040824151117.3cc932b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD mailinglist Subject: Re: Installing ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:11:19 -0000 On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:11:49 +0200 "Florian Hengstberger" wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I'm in trouble with installing software > using the ports collection. After typing "make install" everything > seems to be okay, but in most cases I get a message like this after > a few minutes: > > fetch time out hello florian, could you please help us to help you, by providing more details? for example, it would be really useful to know which ports you're having the problem with. it could indeed be that the mirrors for a given port may require updating (but we're not going to look at all +11k ports just because you dropped us a line ;) i get the feeling that you are experiencing the problem with many different ports. as such, mirror lists are an unlikely culprit (or we would be seeing a lot of such complaints on the mailing lists). > It seemed to me that the mirror servers are not uptodate or that > some filenames have changed in the meantime, because fetching data > from ftp-servers worked a few times. > But in nearly all cases I had to copy the files manually in > /usr/ports/distfiles as "make install" finally suggested. > > So I installed a new ports-collection with sysinstall over ftp but > things haven't changed. I'm a little confused, because fetching data > from FreeSD ftp-servers doesn't work too (remember that some fetches > were successful!). i have never installed a new ports collection this way, so i cannot speak about the reliability of this method. cvsup, on the other hand, is a method for which i (and the handbook) can vouch. if you haven't already, check out the handbook entry on cvsup (section III-A-4). it should probably clear up your issue (unless, of course, you're having a networking problem). if you're in a pinch, you can probably also download a copy of the tree from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and extract it over your existing /usr/ports i don't know how often that tarball is updated, but the latest timestamp on it is 2004.08.24 03:38:00, so it should work too. anyway. hope this helps. cheers, epi > Please help me, > Florian > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Florian Hengstberger > e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at > http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0025265 > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >