From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 12:44:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA12015744 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 12491 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2000 20:44:02 -0000 Received: from userad07.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.131.50) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2000 20:44:02 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00428; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:44:00 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:43:59 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Brett Taylor Cc: aunty , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating ports Message-ID: <20000113204359.A342@marder-1> References: <20000114061623.B580@comcen.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:28:14PM -0500, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi Sue, > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, aunty wrote: > > > Thanks. I see new ports that I didn't have before, and I see old ports > > with new dates and version numbers, but I can't find openssh or > > OpenSSH or open-ssh in /usr/ports/security nor in /usr/ports/INDEX, > > and when I look via the web site I see a port tarball for it but the > > "source" is just a list of checksums. Others seem to be getting > > openssh automagically and I feel a bit left out :-) > > > Now I'm back where I started. Does everyone else's ports tree have > > openssh in it? > > Yep. :-) As Mark noted, your ports supfile looks okay to me. You don't > have a refuse file running around do you? > > In terms of finding things in INDEX - INDEX is only updated occasionally > when the PW decides it's best (actually I think it's when he builds all > the new packages every other week or so). In any case, it doesn't get > updated everytime something new goes in the ports tree. > Unless you do # cd /usr/ports # make index locally. > That said OpenSSH shows up in my INDEX now (I just re-cvsup'ed just to > see). > > Initial import of openssh happened back on Nov 8th according to the CVS > logs. > > Are any of the ports in your security directory getting updated? Maybe > the permissions got screwed up at some point on this directory? > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message