From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 7:51:39 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 2F8A837B98F for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) Received: from ilka.ncptiddische.net (pC19F6999.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [193.159.105.153]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04240 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:50:47 +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 QAA00637 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:52:23 +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 QAA00289 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:52:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) From: Nils Holland Organization: NightCastle Productions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with the ports collection Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:36:53 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042116475300.00465@tempest.ncptiddische.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote a message similar to this one yesterday and I did not get an answer. Most likely I didn't explain the problem enough for somebody to be able to help me. Sorry. Here's the problem again, this time the question is more *general*. Well, having known only Linux before I'm kind of amazed how the FreeBSD Ports collection works. I really like it, as I like the FreeBSD system in General. Now, one thing I don't seem to get working even after having read the FreeBSD handbook is the following: It says that in order to get updated ports runing on my system that were not available when my version of FreeBSD was released (I have 3.4-RELEASE) I need to download and install the appropriate upgrade kit. I did that, although I don't have much of a clue what that was good for... Now, I try the following, just as the FreeBSD handbook tells me. cd /usr/ports/math rm -r siag # Delete the old version of the SIAG-port dir ftp ftp7.de.freebsd.de # I connect to the server and login to it cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/math get siag.tar # Getting the siag dir in tared form bye # saying good-bye to the ftp-server tar xf siag.tar # untar the downloaded siag dir into my /usr/ports/math dir cd siag make Ok, now the system should go and fetch the appropriate file. But it doesn't. It says something like that: tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system Attempting to fetch from ftp7.de.freebsd.org Ok, it does now try to fetch a file called .tar.gz. This cannot be successful (and it is not) since it cannot get a .tar.gz file without a name. Having inspected the Makefiles of the ports dirs that came with my sytsem, I see that in these files there is a line that goes DISTNAME=something which is not present in the Makefile of the port dirs I fetch from the FTP-server. So, what's wrong? Won't I be able to get and use the ports from the FTP-server on my 3.4-RELEASE system without some prior updates of my system? If so, please tell me what I gotta do! Thanks in advance, Nils To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message