Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:16:53 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> To: excalibr@avalon.net Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad ports Message-ID: <20010809151653.A7139@johncoop> In-Reply-To: <3B730E0C.637BA715@avalon.net>; from excalibr@avalon.net on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 15:27:21 -0700 References: <3B730E0C.637BA715@avalon.net>
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It's not appropriate to send mail to a web site, so I've deleted the URL from the e-mail CC list: On 2001.08.09 15:27 Greg wrote: > What I am used to I guess is when I click the Download link under a port > I > expect to download the port. That is, a tar of the directory containing > the > Makefile, distinfo, files dir, and so on. > what I am getting instead is an open ftp client waiting inside that > directory. > Now, I suppose that I can build the requisite directories my self and > mget the > stuff in batches, but it kind of defeats the point of the download link, > now, > doesn't it? (besides invalidating the claim made in the intro to the > ports) > > The ports in question are the amanda ports (all of them!) > here is one of the exact urls I used > (note this is what the link download (shown below) went to > ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/misc/amanda24-server/ > > > > amanda24-server-2.4.2p2_1 > The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver > Maintained by: jeh@FreeBSD.org > Requires: amanda24-client-2.4.2p2_1, gettext-0.10.35, > gmake-3.79.1, > gtar-1.13.19, libtool-1.3.4_2 > Description : Sources : Package : Changes : Download > If your problem is with building the port in /usr/ports/misc/amanda24-server, then I have no idea what's going wrong--I just today built and installed that port without a hitch. If you have some other issue, you have not clearly communicated it. jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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