Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:07:38 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Richard Russell" <richard@yellowgoanna.com> Cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem installing Xfree86-4 and other ports Message-ID: <20020218050738.32AE35D09@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:18:44 %2B1030." <004101c1b837$8b7aafb0$0c00a8c0@albert>
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> From: "Richard Russell" <richard@yellowgoanna.com> > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:18:44 +1030 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Was my post too long? too hard? too easy (not worth an RTFM!)? to the > wrong list? > > I'm stuck here, folks... it's a showstopper, and I have already > downloaded 800Mb ish of ports (which will cost me $A110 here) ... sigh > :) Not too long, but badly organized. Tell us the problem and attach relevant files. Don't expect us to wade through over 200 lines of text before we can figure out if we can help. Some of the edit you made toe the messages were a bit confusing to me, but the bottom line seems to be that pkg_tarup is wrong. This probably means an error occurred when fetching the file. But the file fetched in now on you system, so subsequent attempt will fail in the same manner. The files are stored in /usr/ports/distfiles. In some cases they are stored in sub-directories of distfiles. Delete the bad file from there and try again. If you have a consistent problem with a port, it is possible that the distribution file was modified without a change to the file name, but that is not the case for pkg_tarup. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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