From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 13:26:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1371F37B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28070 invoked by uid 0); 30 Aug 2000 20:26:32 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2000 20:26:32 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000830151859.00ace2f0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:23:02 -0500 To: Nilmoni Deb From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: adding a port Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <39AD4FD7.65DDDA0C@ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The default location to search is: /usr/ports/distfiles If the package is not found there (or the right version is not found there), then the Makefile inside that particular port's directory is queried as to where to go and get the package. Since the only real location search is /usr/ports/distfiles, if it's not found there then it isn't found "in the system". FYI, after the package is retrieved and extracted, that's kept in /usr/ports//work/ for example, for dvips: /usr/ports/print/dvips/work/dvips576 Oscar At 02:17 PM 8/30/00 -0400, Nilmoni Deb, you 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