diff --git a/en/ports/packages b/en/ports/packages
index 292ccf7ef6..5a7928bf3e 100755
--- a/en/ports/packages
+++ b/en/ports/packages
@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Copyright (c) June 1998 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.ORG>, Berlin.
 #
 # packages - create a sorted list of precompiled packages which
 #            are available at the FreeBSD FTP Server.
 #
-# $Id: packages,v 1.4 1999-04-13 12:13:32 wosch Exp $
+# $Id: packages,v 1.5 1999-05-06 11:34:24 wosch Exp $
 
 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
 
 release='packages-stable';
 url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/$release/All/"
 
 temp=_lynx$$
 
-if lynx -source "$url" > $temp; then
+if lynx -source "$url" > $temp || ( sleep 300; lynx -source "$url" > $temp )
+then
     perl -ne 'print $1, "\n" if m%href="([^"]+)"%oi' < $temp |
     perl -npe  's%.*/%%' | sort | grep -v '^\.\.$'
     rm -f $temp
 else
 	rm -f $temp
 	exit 1
 fi