From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 12:23:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F83637B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13UDSO-000PBZ-00; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:23:32 +0200 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:23:32 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Nilmoni Deb Cc: Theo Bell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a port Message-ID: <20000830212332.A96743@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ndeb@ece.cmu.edu on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:34:46PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-08-30 (14:34), Nilmoni Deb 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. It does. If it can't find it: >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles// and try again. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message