From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 00:25:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1634416A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spy23.spymac.net (spy23.spymac.net [213.218.8.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF6043D45 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:25:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from muhammad_ali@spymac.com) Received: from spy24.spymac.net (spy24.spymac.net [213.218.8.224]) by spy23.spymac.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF5F384D1; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:25:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [202.163.95.197] (unknown [202.163.95.197]) by spy24.spymac.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBB411C052; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 01:24:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <40BC2F4A.7020903@spymac.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:24:58 +0500 From: Muhammad Ali User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny MacMillan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles with ports... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:25:04 -0000 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...