Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:24:58 +0500 From: Muhammad Ali <muhammad_ali@spymac.com> To: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles with ports... Message-ID: <40BC2F4A.7020903@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABOEOICMAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> References: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABOEOICMAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net>
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Danny MacMillan wrote: >This is normal behaviour. The ports collection does not include >qt-x11-free-3.3.2.tar.bz2. In broad terms, the ports collection does not >contain =any= software. Rather, it contains instructions for obtaining and >building software to run on your FreeBSD system. When you "make install" a >certain port A, it will first make those ports A depends on, and each port >THOSE ports depend on, and so on until it comes to a port that doesn't >depend on anything you don't already have installed. It will recursively >traverse the dependencies until finally it is able to make the port you >asked it to make. > >If I understand you correctly, this is an issue because your fetch is not >working through your authenticated ftp proxy. I believe you're going to be >less frustrated dealing with that problem first. Otherwise you'll have to >manually fetch every distfile for /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and all ports it >depends on, directly or indirectly, and that is a =lot= of files, presuming >you can manually retrieve these files. > >You should also be aware that building a mega-package like kde from source >is quite a lengthy process, even on relatively fast hardware. You may wish >instead to install binary packages. Ordinarily a reference to pkg_add -r is >included at this point, but you may have trouble even with that unless and >until you get your ftp proxy issue resolved. > >-- >Danny > > > Thanks for the detailed response. I was confused because i stupidly assumed ports.tar.gz has everything. I think i'll go with the packages now... and i'll get them from the cd... Thanks again...
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