portupgrade can't fetch packages

[Mel]

On Monday 10 March 2008 15:38:17 Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Earlier today I ran "portupgrade -aP" to update my system. Alas,
> everytime it tried to download a package, it failed and resorted to
> downloading and compiling the source. For example:
>
> [...]
> --->  Checking for the latest package of 'lang/python25'
> --->  Fetching the package(s) for 'python25-2.5.2_1' (lang/python25)
> --->  Fetching python25-2.5.2_1
> fetch:
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/python25
>-2.5.2_1.tbz: Can't open data connection

If this is a persistent rather then temporary problem, the only way I can see 
that happening, is that you have FTP_PASSIVE_MODE set to 'no' in 
pkgtools.conf.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.