Newbie's installation of portupgrade fails...

[Jason Stewart]

Rommel B. Ikeda wrote:

>Dear Aaron Siegel,
>
>I tried what you recommended to me, the installation of "portupgrade"
>	# cd  /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
>	# make install
>	# make clean  
>Below are the result of when I tried to install...
>
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>
>>>pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.iDaemons.org/pub/distfiles/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.iDaemons.org/pub/distfiles/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Syntax error, command unrecognized
>  
>
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Syntax error, command unrecognized
>  
>
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Syntax error, command unrecognized
>  
>
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Syntax error, command unrecognized
>  
>
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Service not available, closing control connection
>  
>
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Syntax error, command unrecognized
>  
>
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/knu/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Syntax error, command unrecognized
>  
>
>>>Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.iDaemons.org/pub/distfiles/.
>>>      
>>>
>fetch: ftp://ftp.iDaemons.org/pub/distfiles/pkgtools-20030427.tar.bz2:
>Syntax error, command unrecognized
>  
>
>>>Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>>>port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
>>>      
>>>
>*** Error code 1
>
>I would really appreciate it if you could give any advice regarding this one...
>

How old is your ports tree, asin when was the last time you cvsupped a 
new ports tree?

Jason

>
>Rommel B. Ikeda
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