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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:37:57 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ports refusing to build...
Message-ID:  <20010227163757.O767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A9BFEA8.C5A57FDB@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:23:21AM -0800
References:  <3A9BFEA8.C5A57FDB@elischer.org>

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:23:21AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> So I updated the vmware port via CVS today
> but it refuses to build with:
> jules# make
> 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.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware.
> ----------------------------------------
> qustions 12 and 13 are:
> 
> 12.But you said above that CVSup won't delete any files if I don't have
>    a checkouts file. If I adopt my existing files as you describe, don't 
>    I run a risk that some files which should be deleted won't be deleted? 
> 13.How can I adopt my FreeBSD-2.2.5 sources, and update them directly to 
>    FreeBSD-current? 
> 
> I don't see how these are relavent since I mirror the CVS tree and checked
> the ports out from CVS.
> 
> Is it true that the ports tree cannot build at the moment because
> it's inconsitent with itself?

Did you even read the suggestion?  It said "if you updated .. via cvsup
.. see Q12 and Q13 ..".  Your problem is because you didn't update your
ports/Mk (sigh).

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wca

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