Fetch

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Tue May 24 12:35:08 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:36PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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."

My guess would be that since 5.2.1 is more than a year old, all the
popular ports that came with it are WAY, WAY out of date; and have had
all the distfiles moved. Why don't you recvsup your ports tree and try
again.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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