Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:45:30 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk> To: Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles file Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219213817.182C-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9511188193.AA819309475@njcorp.akbs.com>
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On Mon, 18 Dec 1995 Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com wrote: > Right now I am facing a problem. According to the > "http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook28.html" page, I have to have > /usr/ports/distfiles file to allow me porting INN news from either CD-ROM > or internet. I checked my system and the system does not have > /usr/ports/distfiles. Can you tell me where I can get this file (I > checked ftp.freebsd.org and I could not find the directory) or did I > install FreeBSD wrong? Thanks in advance. Actually /usr/ports/distfiles is a directory (it's where the source for the ports live). If I remember rightly, there's an option to set up the ports hierarchy during the installation. If you have a CDROM, you can just copy over the whole ports tree # cp -R /cdrom/ports/* /usr Alternatively, you can FTP down the ports tree without the distfiles and, every time you build a port, the source files will be automatically fetched and extracted as part of the build! James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'
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