From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 27 22:22:10 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D02315CFC2D for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:22:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794D074481 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from lowell-desk.be-well.ilk.org (router.lan [172.30.250.2]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1A833C29; Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:16:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id C2808187E01; Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:16:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Ben Brink via freebsd-questions Cc: Ben Brink Subject: Re: How to update ports for portmaster? References: <2135741875.940696.1561667660482.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2135741875.940696.1561667660482@mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: freebsd-questions Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:16:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2135741875.940696.1561667660482@mail.yahoo.com> (Ben Brink via freebsd-questions's message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:34:20 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: <445zoqhdwv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 794D074481 X-Spamd-Bar: +++++++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [9.05 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: be-well.ilk.org]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.05)[ip: (0.16), ipnet: 23.30.0.0/15(0.10), asn: 7922(0.05), country: US(-0.06)]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7922, ipnet:23.30.0.0/15, country:US]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_TO_ADDR(5.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.22)[0.215,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[ilk.org]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.79)[0.794,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[yahoo.com]; GREYLIST(0.00)[pass,body] X-Spam: Yes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:22:10 -0000 Ben Brink via freebsd-questions writes: > While trying to install git with: > > portmaster -a > portmaster -D --no-confirm devel/git > > This error occurs: > > htmlxref.cnf doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles//texinfo/6.5. And presumably, it goes on to try to fetch that file, but you don't show what happens when you do. > Apparently, I need to update ports, per this "bug" report[1]. That's not terribly relevant to anything you've shown, but okay, let's assume you have a ports tree that you need to update. > And yet, these don't fix the issue: > > portmaster -af =A0=A0=20 > portmaster --clean-distfiles-all =A0=A0=20 > portmaster --check-port-dbdir =A0=A0=20 > portmaster -Faf=20 None of those are supposed to update your ports tree. At this point, it sounds like needing to update a ports tree isn't what you think the issue *is*. > # and have also tried variations on direct install, like: > portmaster -D --no-confirm print/texinfo =A0=A0=20 And again, you don't describe what you expected to happen *or* what actually did happen, so there's no way to tell you what might work better. We're not psychic. > I've also tried: > portsnap update > # but it complains that I need to portsnap extract also.. And yet, I > don't want to create voluminous storage.. and have two ports > management systems in use. Well, portsnap update doesn't update your ports tree. Only the extract step does that. Do you even have an existing ports tree? It's not clear which the two "ports management systems" you mention are. The pkg(8) database is tracking the installed ports in any case. How did you install portmaster in the first place? > So, what is the system expecting to update ports for portmaster in this c= ase? There are several ways, but the most common are to use portsnap with update followed by extract, or to check out the ports tree with Subversion. I think your fastest path to getting the software you want installed on your system is to go back and read the "Installing Applications: Packages and Ports" chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook again. At the very least, you should be able to ask more sensical questions. [ https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html ] Good luck.