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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 07:11:29 -0600
To: <gregbrooks@mail.blue-mouse.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: jacks@sage-american.com
Subject: Re: Port-upgrading ineptness
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I don't see "host=cvsup15.FreeBSD.org" on the mirror list.... maybe part of
the problem?

At 11:30 PM 2.7.2002 -0500, gregbrooks wrote:
>All,
>
>After noodling through this for two days, I've hit a wall and need 
>your help.
>
>Problem definition: To enable PHP4 or mod_PHP, I need pdflib3, but 
>make install hits a snag because the current version is 4.x and it 
>can't find an earlier version.
>
>Next stop: cvsup, thinking it'll upgrade my ports tree and (hopefully) 
>resolve the dependency problem. Typing in:
>
>#cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile
>
>gets me:
>
>#Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
>#Release not specified for collection "host-cvsup15.freeBSD.org"
>
>Contents of ports-supfile (sans comments) are below:
>
>host=cvsup15.FreeBSD.org
>base=/usr
>prefix=/usr
>*default host=cvsup15.FreeBSD.org
>*default base=/usr
>*default prefix=/usr
>*default release=cvs
>*default tag=.
>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>ports-all
>
>
>I've also tried default tag=HEAD per the handbook.
>
>
>Sooo... two questions: how to fix the non-running cvsup (by the way, 
>the ports-supfile is in the root directory) and the bigger question: 
>am I even going about resolving this dependency issue properly? Would 
>a smarter approach just be to edit some dependency marker in the 
>makefiles for PHP and/or mod_php?
>
>Many, many thanks!
>Greg
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
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