From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 30 23:49: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A08437B718 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (dan@wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2V7mxf78610 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:49:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200103310749.f2V7mxf78610@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:48:58 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Error: your port uses an old layout. Reply-To: dan@langille.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is getting to be a common error message and many users are seeking help for it: Error: your port uses an old layout. Please update it to match this bsd.port.mk. If you have updated your ports collection via cvsup and are still getting this error, see Q12 and Q13 in the cvsup FAQ on http://www.polstra.com for further information. Problem is, I've read Q12 and Q13 and I can't figure out what to do. So if I can't, what chance does a newbie? 1 - what should people be doing with Q12 and Q13 given that a person is now on 4.3-RC2 and were on 4.0R? 2 - Perhaps this will be answered by Q1, but: Lately, the most common solution I've seen hadned out is rm -rf /usr/ports and cvsup again. Not only is that a huge waste of bandwidth, it's also a huge burdon on those with dial up connections. Is there a more practical solution? -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message