Availability of downloads

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:20:41 -0400
Lynn Steven Killingsworth <quiet.rainbows.llc at gmail.com> wrote:

>    Hi FreeBSD -
>    Since PCBSD takes care of all these details this is not actually a
>    complaint.
>    When I was using FreeBSD the only server I could get packages from
> was in Japan which did so every time although the packages seemed
> rarely changed.
>    I discovered the FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT a few days past and since I
> have 2 machines I thought it would be interesting.  I pointed the
> ports repository to the ports file in the 10.0-CURRENT but when I try
> to fetch there are always missing packages which causes the machine
> not to download any packages at all.  If I just had gotten the Xorg
>    metapackage and KDE metapackage.
>    The kicker of course is that I told several ladies what to do and
> they are still downloading after an hour.   ;~)

could it be that you fell victim to the switch from CVS to SVN?

Erich