Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1306879304.a8dded@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9 Message-ID: <30114554-DF76-4375-9A80-EEFFE2112165@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20110526220140.GA13062@skytracker.ca> References: <20110526220140.GA13062@skytracker.ca>
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On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not support. > I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting > this error on almost every port; > > # make > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE > ===> Extracting for rsnapshot-1.3.1 > /sbin/sha256: not found > *** Error code 127 > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot. I believe you can obtain a sha256 binary from GNU coreutils (although GNU calls it sha256sum), and then install it to /sbin. Regards, -- -Chuck
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