Fetch

G. Felter freebsd at zrizx.com
Thu May 26 04:28:11 PDT 2005


On Thu, 26 May 2005 13:18:48 +0200, Fabian Keil wrote
> "Grant Peel" <gpeel at thenetnow.com> wrote:
> 
> > I recently installed 5.2.1 Release on a nice new box. everything works 
> > except I cant Fetch any port.
> > 
> > "Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> > >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again."
> > 
> > Getting this message on almost every port.
> > 
> > Any ideas?

I could be wrong but I'm almost sure the packages arent available for a
release like 5.2.1 sometime after the next version is released like 5.3  I
think you have to use ports.  I think I ran into that with a 5.2.1 box I had.
G.
> 
> Does it work if you first ping the server holding the port files
> and then try again?
> 
> I once had a similar problem which turned out to be DNS related.
> 
> The DNS server of my D-Link 664T seems to be buggy.
> 
> My work around is to use named as DNS cache and avoid
> buying D-Link in the future.
> 
> Fabian
> -- 
> http://www.fabiankeil.de/



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