Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:46:05 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Erik Greenwald" <erik@smluc.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What gives? Message-ID: <02cc01c0d903$bd8652c0$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <200105092302.SAA25871@smluc.org>
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Make sure you do a make clean on them or make sure they are clean. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Greenwald" <erik@smluc.org> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> 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. > > > <snip> > > 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 The final issue was that some of the ports were hopelessly out of date, and 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 <erik@smluc.org> [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
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