From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 9 20:46:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4993D37B423 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 20:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: from dwcjr (DWCJR.inethouston.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15BE10F410; Wed, 9 May 2001 22:46:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <02cc01c0d903$bd8652c0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Erik Greenwald" , References: <200105092302.SAA25871@smluc.org> Subject: Re: What gives? Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:46:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Make sure you do a make clean on them or make sure they are clean. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Greenwald" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 6:02 PM Subject: Re: What gives? > > > > Ok when you say none were successful, what exactly was happening ? > > > > The "the thing broken" statement doesn't help much if we don't know what > > the thing is. > > > > > A few problems cropped up when I was reinstalling ports last weekend. > > The packages refused to install correctly. I'd let the thing go recursive and > when it failed, I'd go into the port it failed in and run make. That'd immediately > give me another sh prompt, so I'd do "make install", which did the same. The > files, however, were not in place. So I did 'make deinstall', which told me that > the package was not installed, and 'make install' again. For some reason, it'd > succeed on the second make install. *shrug* This happened quite often when > I was installing all the ports I like, and irritated me, but I didn't have time to dig > in and solve it :) > > Another issue I was up against was that Mk/bsd.port.mk still has the fallback > ftp server as ftp://ftp.freebsd.org which I guess is cached in my host table > because I'm hitting the machine that that no longer allows anon ftp. That's > probably all my end :) > > The final issue was that some of the ports were hopelessly out of date, and > the servers didn't have old copies laying around. One particularly unpleasant > occurance was print/tex :) I should probly email that person and complain that > 7.2[ab] is dead and 7.3.3 is the only one on the servers :) > > -Erik [http://math.smsu.edu/~erik] > > The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability, > they are random rambling, and to be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in > severe boredom or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep Refrigerated. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message