From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 14:22:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA24147 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24141 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:22:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00224; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:22:53 -0800 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:22:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles file In-Reply-To: <9511188193.AA819309475@njcorp.akbs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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