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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2000 09:52:10 -0400
From:      "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        rshea@opendoor.co.nz
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading Ports
Message-ID:  <39DB360A.E2ED6630@mitre.org>
References:  <200010040617.e946HEC20267@deborah.paradise.net.nz>

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rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote:
> 
> Hi - Hope someone can help with a problem I've got upgrading a port.
> 
> When I try to do "make all" I get the message ...
> 
> >> .tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system
> 
> ... but I can't see why. Here's what happens.
> 
> I currently run Samba 2.0.6 under 3.4-RELEASE. I got my copy of 3.4 off the
> CD's and I have never cv'supped although I have installed ports off the net
> and dragged in new stuff in the process.
> 
> I would now like to go to Samba 2.0.7 (I need to have a W2K machine on the
> lan [you know like people need a hole in the head ;-). So ...
> 
> I got samba-2.0.7.tar.gz and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles.
> 
> I got the port skeleton samba.tar, untarred it and put it in
> /usr/ports/net/samba (moved the old contents out somewhere else).
> 
> I then did
> 
> make clean
> make all
> 
> The "make all" generates the message
> 
> >> .tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system
> >> Attempting to fetch from ...
> 
> it then tries to fetch something (although it's never quite clear what) from
> a whole bunch of systems none of which have it. Finally suggest I get "it"
> (whatever "it" is, I thought at first it was samba-2.0.7.tar.gz) and put it
> in /usr/ports/distfiles - well I've done that and I still get the same
> message.
> 
> Does any of this sound familiar to anyone ? Has anyone else upgraded samba in
> the way I am and been succesful ? I'd appreciate any help.
> 

You're trying to use a newer version of the ports tree than you bsd.mk
and friends can support.  I think there is a package that upgrades your
ports makefiles to -STABLE if you look around the website.  Alternativly
you can always just upgrade your entire system to 4-STABLE or
4.1.1-RELEASE. 

If you're REALLY lazy, you can just edit the ports Makefile directly and
change the PORTNAME=foo and PORTVERSION=0.0.0 into DISTNAME=foo-0.0.0,
although this definatly not supported.

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