From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 31 20:28:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15692 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 20:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15686 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 20:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id PAA11392; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:02:35 +1100 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA17738; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:39:51 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:38:57 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Kevin Weiss cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trying to get my ports to work In-Reply-To: <199901310732.XAA23831@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Kevin Weiss wrote: > Basically, I am getting fetch error, and a message > saying something about "try porting manually to > /usr/ports/distfiles and try again" At the very least you need to mount the CD with the unmodified tarballs on it, so that the ports system can find the tarballs, patch them, build them and then install them. The packages are precompiled, so they can be installed directly without a functional compiler (part of the reason that the most common ones are on the 1st CD, so they can be accessed during the installation). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message