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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:44:19 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: error: "This ports uses old layout"
Message-ID:  <8t4783$uci$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <20001024170719.A1367@urania.westgate.gr>

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Giorgos Keramidas <charon@urania.westgate.gr> wrote:

> Then, I cvsup'ed my ports tree with the following supfile (as intructed
> by /usr/src/UPDATING):

Looks fine.

> But when I try to install /usr/ports/net/netcat I get:
> 
>     urania# make
>     Error: your port uses an old layout.  Please update it to match this
> bsd.port.mk.

Show us an "ls -R" of /usr/ports/net/netcat.

> What gives?  Are ports still being updated to the new layout?

No. That change happened over the course of a couple of hours.

> Anybody know why this happens, or at least what I should do next?

You may have some garbage lying around in your ports tree.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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