From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 11:35: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C3D37B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha (ALPHA.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.128.31]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA20985; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:34:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:34:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Nilmoni Deb X-Sender: ndeb@alpha To: Theo Bell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a port In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Theo Bell wrote: > 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. In that case why doesn't the makefile give an intelligent error message such as "pkg.tar.gz not found in /usr/ports/stupid/game/hell_dir/" Atleast that saves the time of downloading a 12MB file (like netscape) for 45 minutes if the user has already downloaded it once. - Nil > > 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