Where is ftp.freesoftware.com?
ant...@atkielski.com
to have to come from ftp.freesoftware.com, which no longer exists. How am I
supposed to install anything this way? Most of the other mirrors don't work,
either.
Is there any way to install this from the Wind River FreeBSD 4.3 CD-ROM set,
without going out to the Net at all?
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m...@soupnazi.org
> I'm trying to fix up linux_base from the ports and just about every
> file seems to have to come from ftp.freesoftware.com, which no longer
> exists. How am I supposed to install anything this way? Most of the
> other mirrors don't work, either.
ftp.freesoftware.com has been dead for quite some time (at least 6
months or so). IIRC, the UK mirror has the linux_base bits and is
fairly quick (I'm in California).
> Is there any way to install this from the Wind River FreeBSD 4.3
> CD-ROM set, without going out to the Net at all?
You can install the package from sysinstall... or you can install the
package on the command line using pkg_add -r linux_base (that will go
fetch the package from the FTP site).
- jim
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seta...@submonkey.net
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 at 12:42:06 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> > I'm trying to fix up linux_base from the ports and just about every
> > file seems to have to come from ftp.freesoftware.com, which no longer
> > exists. How am I supposed to install anything this way? Most of the
> > other mirrors don't work, either.
>
> ftp.freesoftware.com has been dead for quite some time (at least 6
> months or so). IIRC, the UK mirror has the linux_base bits and is
> fairly quick (I'm in California).
It definitely does - I downloaded them from there yesterday.
ftp.mirror.ac.uk
Ceri
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kut...@kutulu.org
> Is there any way to install this from the Wind River FreeBSD 4.3 CD-ROM set,
> without going out to the Net at all?
Yes. Put the files (the entire list of them is in the file 'distinfo' in the
port directory) into /usr/ports/distfiles. The port make looks there first,
and only tries to fetch them if not found.
--K
ant...@atkielski.com
> You can install the package from sysinstall...
Thanks. That worked, after I specified ftp2.freebsd.org as the FTP site. At
least I think it worked. I'm not sure how to test to see if linux_base is in,
but I'll look that up somewhere (there is no rush). Even so, I wasted several
hours on that today.
seta...@submonkey.net
> Jim writes:
>
> > You can install the package from sysinstall...
>
> Thanks. That worked, after I specified ftp2.freebsd.org as the FTP site. At
> least I think it worked. I'm not sure how to test to see if linux_base is in,
> but I'll look that up somewhere (there is no rush). Even so, I wasted several
> hours on that today.
man pkg_info
Ceri
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be...@klatsch.org
> Jim writes:
>
> > You can install the package from sysinstall...
>
> Thanks. That worked, after I specified ftp2.freebsd.org as the FTP site. At
> least I think it worked. I'm not sure how to test to see if linux_base is in,
> but I'll look that up somewhere (there is no rush). Even so, I wasted several
> hours on that today.
Are you keeping your ports tree up to date? IIRC, you're running a
4.3 based system. Looking at the current Makefile for
/usr/ports/emulators/linux_base, I don't see ftp.freesoftware.com
listed.
<snip from the Makefile>
MASTER_SITES= ${RPM_MIRRORS:S/__DIR__/${STDDIR}/g}
...
RPM_MIRRORS= \
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/__DIR__/ \
ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/RedHat/__DIR__/ \
ftp://ftp.crc.ca/mirrors/by-site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/__DIR__/ \
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/site/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/__DIR__/ \
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/redhat/__DIR__/ \
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/__DIR__/ \
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/redhat/__DIR__/ \
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/redhat/__DIR__/
<end snip>
Perhaps you need to update your ports tree?
If that's the case, the short and sweet version of how to do that is
here (see section 4.5.1 "CVSup Method"):
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
The more comprehensive explanation of using cvsup is here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
Have fun!
-ben
cha...@labs.gr
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:37:17PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> > Jim writes:
> >
> > > You can install the package from sysinstall...
> >
> > Thanks. That worked, after I specified ftp2.freebsd.org as the FTP site. At
> > least I think it worked. I'm not sure how to test to see if linux_base is in,
> > but I'll look that up somewhere (there is no rush). Even so, I wasted several
> > hours on that today.
>
>
> If that's the case, the short and sweet version of how to do that is
> here (see section 4.5.1 "CVSup Method"):
Yes, that is the case. ftp.freesoftware.com has been removed from the
Makefiles of the ports that used it more than a month ago :)
# cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base
# cvs -qR log -r1.55 Makefile
...
revision 1.55
date: 2001/09/23 19:50:29; author: dwcjr; state: Exp; lines: +1 -2
Remove ftp.freesoftware.com from MASTER_SITES of ports since it no
longer exists.
PR: 30497
Submitted by: Dan Larsson
Approved by: will
Anthony, updating your ports tree should fix this :)
ant...@atkielski.com
And what is the simplest way to do that?
cha...@labs.gr
> > Anthony, updating your ports tree should fix this :)
>
> And what is the simplest way to do that?
There are various ways, explained in the Handbook.
A lot of people tend to prefer CVSup.
This, on a machine connected to the Internet,
essentially boils down to:
a) Become root.
a.1) If not done before, install the latest package for cvsup.
This will give you the CVSup client.
b) Change your working directory to /usr/share/examples/cvsup
c) Run cvsup to update the ports tree:
# cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.gr.freebsd.org ports-supfile
Of course, you need to choose a CVSup server closer to you
network-wise. The cvsup.gr.freebsd.org server is close to me,
but might be suboptimal for you.
cha...@labs.gr
> It doesn't work. This is what I get:
>
> # cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup> Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
> Connecting to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org
> Connected to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org
> Protocol negotiation failed: See
> http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/s1g/ for upgrading information
> #
>
> I upgraded cvsup itself with /stand/sysinstall, but I still get this error. I
> checked the URL shown, but it isn't clear whether or not that is a newer version
> than I have; after all, I just installed the latest version (I assume) with
> /stand/sysinstall, from FTP.
Grab the latest CVSup from
http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/i386-nogui/cvsup-16.1e.tgz
and install it.
Make sure you remove any other cvsup packages you have installed.
pkg_info is your friend for this...
# pkg_info | grep cvsup
cvsup-16.1d A general network file distribution ...
ant...@atkielski.com
# cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup
# cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.gr.freebsd.org ports-supfile
Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
Connecting to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org
Connected to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org
Protocol negotiation failed: See
http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/s1g/ for upgrading information
#
I upgraded cvsup itself with /stand/sysinstall, but I still get this error. I
checked the URL shown, but it isn't clear whether or not that is a newer version
than I have; after all, I just installed the latest version (I assume) with
/stand/sysinstall, from FTP.
m...@soupnazi.org
> It doesn't work. This is what I get:
>
> # cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup
> # cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup.gr.freebsd.org ports-supfile
> Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
> Connecting to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org
> Connected to cvsup.gr.freebsd.org
> Protocol negotiation failed: See
> http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/s1g/ for upgrading information
> #
>
> I upgraded cvsup itself with /stand/sysinstall, but I still get this
> error. I checked the URL shown, but it isn't clear whether or not
> that is a newer version than I have; after all, I just installed the
> latest version (I assume) with /stand/sysinstall, from FTP.
Do what it says in the URL. Go get the package from there and install
it.
- jim
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ant...@atkielski.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Mock" <m...@soupnazi.org>
To: "Anthony Atkielski" <ant...@atkielski.com>
Cc: "Giorgos Keramidas" <cha...@labs.gr>; <ques...@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 00:14
Subject: Re: Where is ftp.freesoftware.com?