Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:20:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: alissa bader <mol666@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get ports collection to work Message-ID: <3ADBC489.1657DB27@urx.com> References: <20010417033216.2604.qmail@web803.mail.yahoo.com>
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alissa bader wrote: > > hiyah. I'm running 4.1 release. before I did > anything else I added the package to upgrade from 4.1 > to stable, as per the handbook. Then I updated the > ports tree via a cvsup--using the generic cvsupfile > that came with cvsupit. > > So then I tried to install a port, and I got the > following: > "error -- your port uses an old layout." Then I was > directed to a faq to ask for the correct file to > cvsup. I did this. I think. But I must have not > done this correctly, because after running a cvsup > again, I still get the same error message when I try > to make something. > > Help! What am I doing wrong? Nothing, you have an old setup, which means you have a couple of dirctories present that are no longer used. Brett Taylor posted this a couple of days ago. Try cd /usr/ports/ && rm -rf */*/work */*/patches Kent > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > thanks! > > --alissa > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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