From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 15: 4:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ahab.COM (gw1-75ml.themediatc.com [204.143.179.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE1837B9F5 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luser@ahab.com) Received: from localhost (moxie@localhost) by ahab.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02520; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:02:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luser@ahab.com) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:02:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason T X-Sender: moxie@localhost To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: error code 1 In-Reply-To: <20000707014030.C3573@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > it gives error code 1 and does not go through > > Looks like it could not retrieve the source package. Are you > connected to the internet? And did you try doing what it said -- > ie retrieve the source manually and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles? > And do you have write permissions? Unless you've changed ownership/permissions of /usr/ports, you need to do this as root in order to write to /usr/ports/distfiles and to the port directory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message