Installing/Upgrading Ports

Wesley Shields wxs at atarininja.org
Wed Nov 15 06:21:19 PST 2006


On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:59:38PM +0000, Suhail Choudhury wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why trying to install ports via "sysinstall -> customise -> ports",
> whichever location I try, I get the following message:
> 
> Warning:  Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this ? x ?
>          ? ? ? FTP server.  You may need to visit a different server
> for       ? x ?
>          ? ? ? the release you are trying to fetch or go to the
> Options        ? x ?
>          ? ? ? menu and to set the release name to explicitly match
> what's     ? x ?
>          ? ? ? available on ftp1.freebsd.org (or set to "any").
>         ? x ?
>          ? ? ?
>         ? x ?
>          ? ? ? Would you like to select another FTP server?
> 
> How can I install the ports directory on 6.1-RELEASE-p10?
> -- 
> 
> Regards,
> Suhail.

By using cvsup (use pkg_add(1) to install it), or portsnap which is in
the base system.  The entire process is well documented in the handbook.

-- WXS


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