Re: Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything.

First guess... Connect a network cable.


Please copy-paste the error message in your mail. It helps people helping you.
Any relevant message in /var/log/messages? 


Regards, 
Ronald.


Sorry for top posting, my mobile mail app does this.


Van: Alex McKeever <alex.mckeever_at_sbcglobal.net>
Datum: 01 september 2018 23:06
Aan: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: Re: Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything.

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> I simply changed directory to which thing I want to compile in /ports, run the command make install, and after a short while it fails to retrieve the source archive (.tar.gz)
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> On Saturday, September 1, 2018, 4:56 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws> wrote:
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>> It helps a lot of you send the exact command you run with the error message. Or all the significant output.
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>> Regards,
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>> Van: Alex McKeever <alex.mckeever_at_sbcglobal.net>
>> Datum: 01 september 2018 19:50
>> Aan: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org>
>> Onderwerp: Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything.
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>>> After compiling PKG, when I go to ports to compile anything (my eMac can run FreeBSD but not modern Linux due to the version of the Radeon GPU) it fails to retrieve any of the source tarballs for any of the software, desktop environments etc. I would like help to fix this, as I’d like to run something current.
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