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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:52:55 -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:  <3ADBCC27.211EC212@urx.com>
References:  <20010417044452.19732.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com>

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alissa bader wrote:
> 
> --- Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> thanks very much for the assistance.  I tried that,
> but I still cannot make a port (get the same "old
> setup" messages as I do before).  time to cvsup again?
>  Or, perhaps time to upgrade the OS in the first
> place?  :

Nothing to do with the OS. There is only a tag=. version of the ports. If
you are cvsup'ing ports-all, you could always rm -rf * from the port
directory that your are trying to install and then recvsup. A few people are
cd /usr/ports and rm -rf * and recvsup. This is sort of like trying to shoot
a mouse with an elephant gun. I tend towards the more elegant solution of
only deleting what you have to delete.

Kent


Kent
> 
> --alissa
> 
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