5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS

Eric Pogroski pogrose at twcny.rr.com
Mon Oct 20 11:54:03 PDT 2003


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:38:03 -0400
Osmany Guirola Cruz <osmany.guirola at 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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