From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 10:58:36 2002 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 7B8AA37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C2843E88 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:58:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.223] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A1E3FE3F007A; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:56:35 -0600 Message-ID: <021601c28c0f$5ea820b0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: , "freebsd-questions" References: <3DD3F0A1.6070405@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: checksum errors Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:55:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Subject: checksum errors > hi, > > why is it that trying to install a port with make, often results in a > checksum error that is overcomed easily by pkg_adding -r the same > application ? The error message recommends to check out that the > makefile is up to date but how could I do this ? > > thanks in advance > Port shells are stored locally. Packages are retrieved from the 'Net automatically. Your ports tree is probably way out of date. CVSUP is one of a couple of programs used to update your ports tree. Check out the manual "staying current" for more information about this. As for your 2nd ??, how about: $ls -l /usr/ports/www/apache13 total 40 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3701 Oct 9 18:03 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 62 Oct 9 18:03 distinfo drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 23 23:10 files -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 65 Jun 26 1999 pkg-comment -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 285 Dec 7 2001 pkg-deinstall -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 305 May 7 2000 pkg-descr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 666 Oct 21 2001 pkg-install -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 244 Mar 24 2002 pkg-message -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20833 Oct 9 18:03 pkg-plist This tells me that the Makefile for apache1.3x was *very* current on October 9th... HTH, Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message