From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 09:05:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A81CB16A4CF for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:05:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.anything-inc.com (adsl-068-153-193-052.sip.bct.bellsouth.net [68.153.193.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A2343FD7 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:05:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ) Received: from /spool/local by anything-inc.com with [XMail 1.17 (FreeBSD/Ix86) LMAIL Server] for from <>; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:15:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:15:34 -0500 From: Bob Collins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031126171534.GA41465@yoda.anything-inc.com> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031126111746.01b103d8@pop.face2interface.com> <44llq3ccph.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44llq3ccph.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Comment: No comment X-Cuse: I have none X-Editor: vi X-plainyourself: dunno X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=3.5 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: newbie install question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:05:43 -0000 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Marty Landman writes: > > > I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server > > from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to > > d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from mysql.org > > and install from there. How is this done? Do I just drop the tar.gz > > into the ports dir and then make install; make build after make > > dist-clean? Which subdir does the .gz file go into? > > distfiles > > [man ports(7)] > > Also note the -F and -R options for fetch, which is the default > program used for the downloads. I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further aggravation of some file broken while installing.