Date: 09 Nov 1999 10:31:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/packages Message-ID: <867ljsukuu.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Fredrik Carlen's message of "Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:33:48 %2B0100" References: <99110900462302.00426@machine.beastie.org>
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Fredrik Carlen <fredrik.carlen@telia.com> writes: > Let me just get this straight: All the packages that were available > for the time of my version's release are on the CD's, but not > necessarily the tarballs required to build the ports? > > I tried to port lynx, and put all the even remotely lynx-looking > tarballs into /usr/ports/distfiles/ , and then switched directory to > /usr/ports/www/lynx/ and did 'make', but it still tried to fetch the > tarball by ftp, and since my ppp-connection wasn't up, it failed. What > have _I_ failed to understand? Was the version that you put in `distfiles' the right one? Was it lynx that it tried to download or some other dependency of it? A small error log would be tremendously helpful :-) -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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