Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:22:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles file Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951218142137.212B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9511188193.AA819309475@njcorp.akbs.com>
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On Mon, 18 Dec 1995 Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com wrote: > Right now I am facing a problem. According to the > "http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook28.html" page, I have to have > /usr/ports/distfiles file to allow me porting INN news from either CD-ROM > or internet. I checked my system and the system does not have > /usr/ports/distfiles. Can you tell me where I can get this file (I > checked ftp.freebsd.org and I could not find the directory) or did I > install FreeBSD wrong? Thanks in advance. /usr/ports/distfiles is a directory. If you don't have it, make it. It's for storing the distribution archives for ports. All you need to do is download the port from ftp.freebsd.org, extract to a temporary directory and 'make install'; it'll take it from there (get the archive, extract, patch, compile) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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