Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:23:21 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: hymette@wanadoo.fr, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: checksum errors Message-ID: <3DD468A9.2020109@owt.com> References: <3DD3F0A1.6070405@wanadoo.fr> <021601c28c0f$5ea820b0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <hymette@wanadoo.fr> > 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 probably way out of date.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... But not current after 12 October. There have been 3 updates to the Makefile since then. You can see the history using cvsweb.gci. For example, the history for Apache-1.3.x is at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/apache13/Makefile Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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