diff --git a/en/ports/packages b/en/ports/packages
index f8e90deb46..292ccf7ef6 100755
--- a/en/ports/packages
+++ b/en/ports/packages
@@ -1,18 +1,23 @@
 #!/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 1.3 1999-01-14 08:31:31 asami Exp $
+# $Id: packages,v 1.4 1999-04-13 12:13:32 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$$
 
-lynx -source "$url" | 
-    perl -ne 'print $1, "\n" if m%href="([^"]+)"%oi' |
+if lynx -source "$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