From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 2:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.syncom.com.tw (mail.syncom.com.tw [203.73.156.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99ED137B681 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 02:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@mail.syncom.com.tw) Received: from CHILL ([203.75.223.133]) by mail.syncom.com.tw (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27814 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 17:22:56 +0800 Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:18:44 +0800 (Taipei Standard Time) From: justin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports and Packages Message-ID: X-X-Sender: justin@mail.syncom.com.tw MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey all, I've got a question about ports and packages. Since i'm just a poor high school student I can't really afford to buy the FreeBSD CD. So I downloaded quite a bit of the ports and packages directories of my local FTP site. Whenever I try to do a "make install" on any port it always ends up failing with a bunch of complaints about being unable to find the files. 1. I noticed a certain similarity between the names of some of the tarballs in the packages directory of the FTP site and the files that a "make fetch-list" will list. Actually the names are exactly the same except for the extensions, which will usually be .tgz and .tar.gz. Can I just rename the files from the packages directory and use those to make ports? 2.If I can't use those, where CAN i find the tarballs for the sources that I need? -justin ko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message