Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 03:47:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: jroberts@ashland.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot d/l anything from Ports collection? Message-ID: <199708071047.DAA21127@foo.primenet.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970806135439.21862B-100000@mercury.ashland.edu>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >Hi, everyone. >Periodically, I have tried to download files from the online Ports >collection, but the transfers always die after a couple of seconds. I >don't this problem downloading from anywhere else on WC's server -- just >the "freebsd.org" section. Can someone tell me what is happening? Right >now, I can't download PGP from freebsd.org, so I have to go cruise around >mit.edu. Messages forward to the maintainers always just get forwarded to >this list, so I thought I'd just post here. Are you aware that the ports are not actually the real programs, but "makefile bootstraps" which do all of the configuration and patching for you (to the point of even downloading the source code), and that as a result, they are generally very, very small (as in under 10K in length)? So, if you are downloading the PGP port, you're really just downloading a few files, which if uncompressed somewhere, can be "make"d to download, patch, compile, and install pgp on your system. If you like, you can even download the "real" files + the port and use them together. >Thanks for any help you can give me. -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/
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