If memory serves me right, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:29:05AM -0700, Harkirat Singh wrote:
> >=20
> > This is the script file!!. I said that I went to ftp site to see whether
> > it (netperf-2.1pl3) is supported for FreeBSD, but I saw all th eother OS
> > but there was no reference for FreeBSD.
>
> Ignore the f*ing ftp site. It looks like there's something wrong with
> your network configuration that you can't fetch it, so you may have to
> fetch it manualy and place it in /usr/ports/distfiles (you can write
> to that, can't you?). It's totally irrelavent that the site doesn't
> list FreeBSD as supported, that's what the port is for. It works just
> fine here.
Actually the problem is that his ports collection is out of date.
Looks like the distfile moved. I noticed this when the Makefile
snippet didn't match what was in my ports tree.
On my machine with a ports collection updated this morning, it fetches
and builds just fine.
Bruce.
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