From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 03:06:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8684916A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:06:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6297543D2D for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:06:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from dsc01-chc-il-209-109-240-89.rasserver.net ([209.109.240.89] helo=nbritton.org) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B5jjp-0000TW-00; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:06:30 -0800 Message-ID: <40601A34.40906@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:06:28 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tadimeti Keshav , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20040323072511.21547.qmail@web25006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040323072511.21547.qmail@web25006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: modifying makefiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:06:32 -0000 Tadimeti Keshav wrote: >hi >SInce I am behind a modem, I downloaded my fav ports >(source files) and copied them to >/usr/ports/distfiles. > Yea im behind a modem too at home (and a firewall) (in a VMware VM) but I can still download the src ppackages in freebsd..... whats this have to do with anything, why can't you download? >Some of the makefiles in the ports target a higer >version of the application than I have, and some the >lower version. >I made the changes in the makefile and adjusted the >MD5 values in the distinfo file, but make fails in the >patch section. Is there a way around this (i know it >is ugly) other than downloading from the net? > > I would just stop right there before you dig yourself into a deeper hole and fuge the system all up, have you read the handbook latey?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html What about the FAQ too?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html We also have a whole page just for newbies: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html And we even have man pages too: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi