Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:57:20 +1030 From: "Richard Russell" <richard@yellowgoanna.com> To: <Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Problem installing Xfree86-4 and other ports Message-ID: <004501c1b83c$f06676c0$0c00a8c0@albert> In-Reply-To: <20020218050738.32AE35D09@ptavv.es.net>
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<snip> > Not too long, but badly organized. Tell us the problem and > attach relevant files. Don't expect us to wade through over > 200 lines of text before we can figure out if we can help. ah -- sorry ... it was rather late here at the time... :) Also, I'm new to BSD, so wasn't sure what was relevant and what was not... > > Some of the edit you made toe the messages were a bit > confusing to me, but the bottom line seems to be that > pkg_tarup is wrong. This probably means an error occurred > when fetching the file. But the file fetched in now on you > system, so subsequent attempt will fail in the same manner. indeed... > The files are stored in /usr/ports/distfiles. In some cases > they are stored in sub-directories of distfiles. Delete the > bad file from there and try again. ok -- I had done a make distclean, but it had failed after that also.... However, after manually removing said file, it works... Thanks so much. I'm very, very appreiciative of your efforts :) > If you have a consistent problem with a port, it is possible > that the distribution file was modified without a change to > the file name, but that is not the case for pkg_tarup. How would I go about finding out if that was the case? rr -- Richard Russell Yellow Goanna Pty Ltd e: richard@yellowgoanna.com m: +61 412 827 805 f: +61 8 8462 2362 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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