From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 13:44: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2694C37B40B for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4F328DFA for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:44:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:44:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 from source? [402 vs 420] Message-ID: <20020610164131.R59441-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Put the files tgz files you've downloaded in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc, and then: > # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 > # make > # make install > # make clean > -- > Jonathan Chen > When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25961532 Jun 10 13:31:18 2002 X420src-1.tgz myprompt$ cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 myprompt$ make ; make install ; make clean >> X402src-1.tgz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.0.2...^C One problem. The tgz files I have are X420 but the "make" seems to want an earlier version, X402. How may I remedy this? (My apologies but I am not versed in portupgrade -R nor in cvs/cvsweb.) myprompt /usr/ports/x11 # ls -al XFree86-4/Makefile* XFree86-4/distinfo -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5097 Jun 10 13:39 XFree86-4/Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5069 Apr 10 2001 XFree86-4/Makefile.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 271 Apr 9 2001 XFree86-4/distinfo Followup question: Is it difficult to override the outdated info in the above files manually? I tried just making changes in the Makefile but the distinfo file has MD5 checksums in it... help? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message