From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 15:55:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C822937B684 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:55:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdu26-61-048.nc.rr.com ([66.26.61.48]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:55:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:00:32 -0500 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <4267825698.20010130190032@nc.rr.com> To: "Wonderful One" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: (-: Ports Question :-) In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tuesday, January 30, 2001, 5:52:52 PM, you wrote: WO> When you get a port from the ports site where are you supposed to untar it WO> from on your box? Are you supposed to untar it from root (/)? My ports WO> branch is /usr/ports the tar goes: WO> pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/........? Is there something I am WO> missing here? The method I use is to just copy the port into the WO> /usr/ports/whatever/myportis. WO> Stupid question but would love to know the answer, though. WO> Wonderful One Try this: Download the file into /usr/ports/distfiles. This is where the makefile should look if it can't fetch teh file from the internet. I don't believe you have to untar it though, as it should look for the .gz format. -- Good Luck, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message