From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 07:05:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA25271 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 07:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (root@attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA25260 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 07:05:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wweng@attila.stevens-tech.edu) Received: from attila.stevens-tech.edu (attila.stevens-tech.edu [155.246.14.11]) by attila.stevens-tech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3.1) with SMTP id KAA16441; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:05:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:05:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Wei Weng To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: install port collection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I have the same problem. But the things worse here is I am behind a stupid firewall, so there is no way that i can use ftp to grab the package from the master site directly. Is there any other way to do it? ja ne ************************************************************ Wei Weng & A N NIIIM MEEEE * Box s-1398 & A A NN N I MM MM * Stevens Institute of Technology& A A N N N I M M MEEEE * Hoboken, NJ 07030 & AAAAAAAN NN I M M * wweng@stevens-tech.edu &A A NIIIM MEEEE * ************************************************************ On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Hoang Q Tran wrote: > > > I want to install bash-2.0.tgz from the FreeBSD 2.2.2 > > port collection. I've followed the "Compiling ports from CDROM" > > in the handbook and still get the error: >> bash-2.0.tgz doesn't > > seem to exist on this system. Attempting to fetch ... << > > I checked the CDROM for the file "distfiles" supposedly under > > /cdrom/ports/ and *it's not there*. > > Do you have a net connection? If you do, then let the port do it's thing > and grab the distribution file from the master site. > > Also, are the distfiles mounted/copied under /usr/ports/distfiles? > bash-2.0.tar.gz is certainly on the 2.2.2 CDROM in ports/distfiles. > > gdi,ttyp1,/cdrom/ports/distfiles,94>pwd > /cdrom/ports/distfiles > gdi,ttyp1,/cdrom/ports/distfiles,95>ls ba* > bash-1.14.7.tar.gz bash-2.0.tar.gz bash-doc-2.0.tar.gz > > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > >