From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 8:23: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.Surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1A737BDE9 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) Received: from ilka.ncptiddische.net (pC19F6992.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [193.159.105.146]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28779 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:22:19 +0200 Received: from tempest.ncptiddische.net (tempest.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by ilka.ncptiddische.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01486 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:23:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) Received: from tempest.ncptiddische.net (tempest.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by tempest.ncptiddische.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA00355 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:23:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) From: Nils Holland Organization: NightCastle Productions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Updating the ports-collections (or at least parts of it) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:13:26 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042017231800.00347@tempest.ncptiddische.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I have a FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE system running and today I read the section in the FreeBSD handbook about the ports system. Although I have been using it for quite a while, today was the first time I really started having an indepth look of what I can do with it besindes simply going to the appropriate directories and saying "make install". In the "Compiling Ports Froth The Internet" section the handbook says how I can get my system to install updated software that was released after 3.4-RELEASE was released. In order to get that working, I first downloaded the update-kit for my system. I added it with pkg_add 34update.tgz (was that correct?). Then I though I'd try the following: I went to a FreeBSD FTP-Server, got the tarred directory siag, deleted my original /usr/ports/math/siag directory and untarred the newly downloaded directory into /usr/ports/math. So far so good. Then I cd'ed into siag and said make. I was waiting to see what was about to happen now, and it was not what I expected. As it tried to fetch the siag-tarball, I got the message: .tar.gz not found (on the FTP-server from where it wanted to download it.) Note that it really said the above, it didn't say .tar.gz not found, it simply said .tar.gz not found, without a filename. The same thing happens with what ever other port I try to install using the procedure described above. So, after all, it seems that I'm doing something wrong. I hope that someone else can give me a general hint on how to solve the problem... I'm really confused now ;-) Greetings, Nils To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message