From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 16 21:20:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458B637B42C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:20:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A48A19701BA; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:20:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3ADBC489.1657DB27@urx.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:20:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alissa bader Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get ports collection to work References: <20010417033216.2604.qmail@web803.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG alissa bader wrote: > > hiyah. I'm running 4.1 release. before I did > anything else I added the package to upgrade from 4.1 > to stable, as per the handbook. Then I updated the > ports tree via a cvsup--using the generic cvsupfile > that came with cvsupit. > > So then I tried to install a port, and I got the > following: > "error -- your port uses an old layout." Then I was > directed to a faq to ask for the correct file to > cvsup. I did this. I think. But I must have not > done this correctly, because after running a cvsup > again, I still get the same error message when I try > to make something. > > Help! What am I doing wrong? Nothing, you have an old setup, which means you have a couple of dirctories present that are no longer used. Brett Taylor posted this a couple of days ago. Try cd /usr/ports/ && rm -rf */*/work */*/patches Kent > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > thanks! > > --alissa > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message