From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 17 20:42:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3ED14D98 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.32]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA25859; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:27:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3719516E.4DFE82D8@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:28:47 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Haro Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to split the ports collection? References: <371935DD.A3B70644@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990417200704.A81975@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> <37194DE3.D8719241@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990417201725.A82105@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Haro wrote: > I guess I'm not following the problem. What was it? Is it that you > didn't install the ports collection from sysinstall and had problems? Yes. As soon as I tried building one of my backed experimental ports, it starting crying out about not finding /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. I downloaded the port update and it was useless, I looked in the live system and the missing file wasn't there either. I repeat this: I don't want to install the complete ports collection, I just want to write some new ports. > > Or is it that there should be better instructions about the ports > collection (like how to get it and update it and stuff)? > I don't want to update it, I can download individual ports from the web. Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message