From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 11: 0:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFB515624 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:00:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA59151; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:00:09 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Brett Taylor Cc: "Havener, Kevin" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.4, Lyx-1.0.4, teTeX-1.0.6, packages and ports Message-ID: <20000127110009.A58910@wopr.caltech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:45:12AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:45:12AM -0500, Brett Taylor wrote: > > Question 1: What is the right answer if make asks me which "file to > > patch: "? Shouldn't make know (at least have a default answer for > > this? > > This is a sign that your ports tree is out of sync w/ the distfile of the > source you grabbed. I'm surprised that the checksums passed actually, > although authors do occasionally change things wo/ bumping the version > number. The right answer is "update your ports tree" w/ CVSup. Or at > least go down the particular port tree for the software you want to > install (and all of its dependencies). Indeed, if you're asked that question, something is wrong. In addition to what Brett said, I think this problem can arise in certain cases if you have an old "work" directory, have updated your Ports Collection, and are trying to build the port again. So I would add that you should do a "make clean" in the port directory to the advice. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message