availability of distfiles

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:11:23PM -0400, Peter wrote:
> 
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:53:06PM -0400, Peter wrote:
> > 
> > > Notes:
> > > 
> > > root at sonata:/usr/ports/sysutils/multitail > make install clean
> > > ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> > > => multitail-3.8.10.tgz doesn't seem to exist in
> > /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> > > => Attempting to fetch from http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/.
> > > fetch: http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/multitail-3.8.10.tgz:
> > size
> > > mismatch: expected 82860, actual 422
> > 
> > Note: error from vendor's site, not FreeBSD.
> > 
> > > => Attempting to fetch from
> > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> > > fetch:
> > >
> >
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/multitail-3.8.10.tgz:
> > 
> > FreeBSD mirrors only update distfiles periodically.
> 
> 
> Ohhhh.  Is there any way to program different/many FreeBSD mirrors on
> one's box?

Yes (see ports(7)), but it won't help since none of them will have it;
by "FreeBSD mirrors" I include ftp-master, the site from which all
others update.

Kris
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