Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:37:18 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: more problems with ports Message-ID: <053e01c09494$5e3b7740$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <04ca01c09480$721e7fa0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <003f01c0948b$b454df80$6100000a@vladsempire.net>
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G'day Josh thanks for the comments > Recently an attic cleaning of the ports tree was done. For reasons > that I won't go into, cvsup can't really update the ports properly > after that happens. The fix is to rm -rf /usr/ports and then re > cvsup. Be sure to save the contents of /ports/distfiles if there are > any tarballs you want to save. > OK ..... that certainly sounds like what has happened here > > I haven't run into very many ports at all that won't install with a > simple make install. What instructions are you talking about? By "instructions" I was referring to the stuff that comes with source code .... occasionally the things are intelligible but all too often they are only suitable for experts. Thats why I always try to install stuff from either sysinstall or ports first. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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