From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 2:26:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD3A14E27 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 02:26:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11l8UA-000KSk-00; Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:26:46 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: fredrik.carlen@telia.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports/packages In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:33:48 +0100." <99110900462302.00426@machine.beastie.org> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 12:26:46 +0200 Message-ID: <78661.942143206@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:33:48 +0100, Fredrik Carlen wrote: > All the packages that were available for the time of my version's release are > on the CD's, but not necessarily the tarballs required to build the ports? No. The CD sets include all the distributable packages and all the distributable distfiles. > I tried to port lynx, and put all the even remotely lynx-looking > tarballs into /usr/ports/distfiles/ , and then switched directory to > /usr/ports/www/lynx/ and did 'make', but it still tried to fetch the > tarball by ftp Can't help you without the error output you got before it tried to fetch the file remotely. Look closely at the filename which the ports mechanism expected, look closely at the location in which it expected to find that file and look closely at your filesystem. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message