From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 12:28:18 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 50F4C37B422 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:28:10 -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 PAA23233; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Nilmoni Deb X-Sender: ndeb@alpha Reply-To: Nilmoni Deb To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Theo Bell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a port In-Reply-To: <20000830212332.A96743@mithrandr.moria.org> 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, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > 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: It does not. What it gives (for FreeBSD 3.1 ) is something like "pkg.tar.gz doesnot seem to be in the system" There is no mention of any path. - Nil > > >> 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