From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 10:12:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9EC37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BB343E31 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6GHCWbo036663; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:12:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6GHCQ2Z036662; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:12:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:12:26 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Ada Cheng Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port in mimedefand looking for version 2.12 but it is unavailable Message-ID: <20020716171226.GA36561@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020716065944.T58003-100000@infinity.kettering.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020716065944.T58003-100000@infinity.kettering.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:04:28AM -0400, Ada Cheng wrote: > I am running 4.6 in my box. I want to install mimedefang from > the ports however they are unable to fetch the file > mimedefang-2.12.tar.gz. So I try to download the file manually and > put it in /usr/ports/distfiles. But the version available at the > bsd website is 2.15. My question is how do I compile the downloaded > file mimedefang-2.15.tar.gz? Your ports tree seems rather out of date. mimedefang-2.15 is the current version in ports. Time to update. The answer to your next question is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message