Installing ports

[Joel Dahl]

Are your local ports-tree up-to-date?


> 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
> 
> 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!).
> 
> Please help me,
> Florian
> 
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> Florian Hengstberger
> e0025265 at student.tuwien.ac.at
> http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0025265
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-- 
Joel