From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 15:44: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60BF14E7E for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 15:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fredrik.carlen@telia.com) Received: from d1o29.telia.com (d1o29.telia.com [194.236.214.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA11689 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:43:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from machine.beastie.org (t3o29p37.telia.com [194.236.215.37]) by d1o29.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA03365 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:43:34 +0100 (CET) From: Fredrik Carlen Reply-To: fredrik.carlen@telia.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports/packages Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:33:48 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99110900462302.00426@machine.beastie.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let me just get this straight: All the packages that were available for the time of my version's release are on the CD's, but not necessarily the tarballs required to build the ports? I tried to port lynx, and put all the even remotely lynx-looking tarballs into /usr/ports/distfiles/ , and then switched directory to /usr/ports/www/lynx/ and did 'make', but it still tried to fetch the tarball by ftp, and since my ppp-connection wasn't up, it failed. What have _I_ failed to understand? /Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message