From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 13:25:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932BC37B43F for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA21197 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 16:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29266 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 16:22:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G0L4QS00.O7C; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 16:25:40 -0400 Message-ID: <39B94B1C.34B74ED8@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 16:25:01 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Turner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP: can't install ports packages References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000908161205.00afd680@mail.johnturner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Turner wrote: > > Hello - > > I'm trying to install the UC-Davis snmp daemon, which is in > /usr/ports/net/ucd-snmp. > > I updated the net ports earlier today with cvsup. > > When I goto the /usr/ports/net/ucd-snmp directory and use the "make" > command, the filename is missing from the FTP instructions: > > host2# make > >> .tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ucd-snmp.ucdavis.edu/. > fetch: .tar.gz: cannot get remote modification time > fetch: ftp://ucd-snmp.ucdavis.edu/.tar.gz: FTP error: > fetch: File name not allowed > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/ucd-snmp/. > > it then cycles through all of the FTP sites basically loooking for .tar.gz > instead of package-name.tar.gz. Also, when I enter "make clean" I get: > > host2# make clean > ===> Cleaning for > ===> Cleaning for > ===> Cleaning for make-3.79.1 > ===> Cleaning for > ===> Cleaning for > ===> Cleaning for > > again, no filenames. > > I'm not very familiar with the ports system. Is this something easily > fixed by modifying the makefile? If so, can someone nudge me in the right > direction? I looked at /usr/ports/net/ucd-snmp/Makefile, but I didn't > notice anything glaringly amiss. Or is this a problem in the package itself? It looks like you have the old 3.x series bsd.ports.mk files. I think there is a package (maybe even a port) that updates these files. The better solution might be to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.1 to get the updated port makefiles and environment. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message