Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 00:16:45 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9 Message-ID: <20110527001645.08de85ae@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <30114554-DF76-4375-9A80-EEFFE2112165@mac.com> References: <20110526220140.GA13062@skytracker.ca> <30114554-DF76-4375-9A80-EEFFE2112165@mac.com>
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On Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: > > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. > > You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not > support. > > > I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting > > this error on almost every port; > > > > # make > > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > > ===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE > > ===> Extracting for rsnapshot-1.3.1 > > /sbin/sha256: not found > > *** Error code 127 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot. > > I believe you can obtain a sha256 binary from GNU coreutils (although > GNU calls it sha256sum), and then install it to /sbin. It's not drop-in replacement. The FreeBSD version sensibly just outputs the hash when hashing from stdin, but the gnu version prints a trailing "-". It may be that the ports makefiles ignore the extra field, but it may require a wrapper script.
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