From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 30 23:32:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23836 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:32:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb1-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA23831 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:32:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu) Message-Id: <199901310732.XAA23831@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 12838 invoked by uid 0); 31 Jan 1999 07:32:27 -0000 Received: from dial-45-9.ots.utexas.edu (HELO mojo) (128.83.112.41) by umbs-smtp-1 with SMTP; 31 Jan 1999 07:32:27 -0000 X-Sender: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 01:33:19 -0600 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kevin Weiss Subject: trying to get my ports to work Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am currently using FreeBSD 2.2.8, and have made no update to my ports, and I've only added ports (well, I mean I ran a pkg_add command from my mounted 1st cd) Basically, I am getting fetch error, and a message saying something about "try porting manually to /usr/ports/distfiles and try again" error 1 stop error 1 stop ... ... so basically, when I'm in the "ports" dir (on my HDD), I cannot do a make, make install, or a make -DBATCH install I heard one suggestion about su'ing the root, but I was in root, and I also checked the permission rights on the ../distfiles dir, but I had writes permission as a user. What am I doing wrong? PS - Which CD has the famous "GIMP" on it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message