From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 25 23:13:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16088 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:13:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.wgn.net (mail@mail.wgn.net [207.213.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16083 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from almazs@wgn.net) From: almazs@wgn.net Received: from laptop (du548-pcap-nca01.wgn.net [207.213.7.40]) by mail.wgn.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id XAA02263 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:12:44 -0700 Message-ID: <35BAC82E.1159@wgn.net> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:10:04 -0700 Reply-To: almazs@wgn.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-NSCP (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: where is the source? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How to get a copy of the source for ports collections ----------------------------------------------------- Reading the documentation on "Installing Application"; "The port collection" 4.2. "How does the port collection work?" the following error message out put is shown as an example: >> ElectricFence-2.0.5.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/c/. The `make' program has noticed that you did not have a local copy of the source code and tried to FTP it down so it could get the job done. I already had the source handy in my example, so it did not need to fetch it. this means: No local copy of the source is available on the system ! How is a copy of the source installed on the system? during installation when asked if you would like to install ports collections or is done afterwards? my machine keeps barfing-out the above message even though I have selected to install full sources and binaries and ports collection of selected types. please help me find the SOURCE of my difficulties. thanks daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message