From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 11:26:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cfdnet.me.tuns.ca (CFDnet.me.TUNS.Ca [134.190.50.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B4637B43E for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by cfdnet.me.tuns.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA75660; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:26:18 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:26:18 -0300 (ADT) From: Theo Bell To: Nilmoni Deb Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a port In-Reply-To: <39AD4FD7.65DDDA0C@ece.cmu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Generally when you compile a port it looks in /usr/ports/distfiles . Sometimes ports (like xemacs I believe) make their own directory in /usr/ports/distfiles. HTH Theo On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Nilmoni Deb wrote: > Hi, > Where does the port look for the tar.gz file when it gives > a message "file_name.tar.gz not found in the system" ? > > What is the path where its looking for the tar and gzipped file. > For example, for porting dvips > I tried putting dvips576.tar.gz in /usr/ports/print/dvips and its > subdirectories > but still it had to ftp the file from its ftp site. > > thanks > - Nil > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message