On 2005-02-10 Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:14 am, Joachim Dagerot wrote: >> I have probably done something sometime on my 2 year+ server >> installation that wrecked my port installation. >> >> Whenever I try to install a port I get the "Can't find the >> `5.1-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server." the same goes with >> "sysinstall -> configure -> Distributions" I have tried multiple >> servers including the main. With the same result. >> >> I really don't know what to do. Any help is appreciated! >> > >Ports don't go by releases like you are trying to do. If you look at >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ >You will see that nothing before 5.2 is there now. The current set of >packages, which is what you are loading, would be located in >packages-5-stable. > >Are you really still using 5.1? That was not considered a production >release. The current version is 5.3 and was the first to be given the >name of 5-stable. Thanks for your answer. I managed to install the ports distribution by the help of another mail. But yes I think I am using the 5.1 release. Don't ask me how or why. I have been running cvsup for all the ports now and then for a couple of years and everytime there's a lot of changes coming in. I am just a unix guy that likes my shell. I don't know and don't have too much interest in following the development paths and all the various tags. When I installed my 5.1 everyone said I should go for 4x but I didn't and it has never failed me. Now when you're pointing out that I run such an old version I googled a bit to find how to upgrade but to be honest, I still really don't get it, but I'll post a new mail about that. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
