From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 16 21:53: 0 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 ABDA937B440 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:52:57 -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 AC2736C0290; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:52:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3ADBCC27.211EC212@urx.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:52:55 -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: <20010417044452.19732.qmail@web804.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: > > --- Kent Stewart wrote: > > > 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 > > thanks very much for the assistance. I tried that, > but I still cannot make a port (get the same "old > setup" messages as I do before). time to cvsup again? > Or, perhaps time to upgrade the OS in the first > place? : Nothing to do with the OS. There is only a tag=. version of the ports. If you are cvsup'ing ports-all, you could always rm -rf * from the port directory that your are trying to install and then recvsup. A few people are cd /usr/ports and rm -rf * and recvsup. This is sort of like trying to shoot a mouse with an elephant gun. I tend towards the more elegant solution of only deleting what you have to delete. Kent Kent > > --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