From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 6:21:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948D0152AA for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 06:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a071.otenet.gr [195.167.115.71]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA27255 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 16:21:28 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 18972 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Nov 1999 08:31:37 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/packages References: <99110900462302.00426@machine.beastie.org> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 09 Nov 1999 10:31:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: Fredrik Carlen's message of "Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:33:48 +0100" Message-ID: <867ljsukuu.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fredrik Carlen 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, "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