From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 15 09:39:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA14241 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA14229 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:39:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xst0x-0000e1-00; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:23:35 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:23:34 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Haider Roland VAI/TAW2 cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msql distfile: where? In-Reply-To: <70D6A3FCD8F1CF11A86508002BE74D793BD502@mail1.vai.co.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Haider Roland VAI/TAW2 wrote: > hi, > i'm having troubles installing msql. > > as my bsd machine is not on the net i'm downloading > the port skeleton i need and unpack it in /usr/ports. > > then i browse the Makefile and get the distfile and put it > in /usr/ports/distfiles > > this worked ok for the ports where i could get the distfile > also from my freebsd.org mirror. > > for msql the distfile should be at www2.nerosworld.com (for legal > reason, right?) > and called msql-2.0.1.tar.gz (my interpretation of the makefile) > unfortunately at their site i could only find files called > msql-2.0.Bx.tar.gz where x=1..3 > > B4 didn't work and i assume 2.0.1 is a release and not a beta version. > > any information welcome! > > cheers, roland nerosworld.com does not have the any of the current msql stuff. I'm not sure what you mean by your "legal reasons" comment. nerosworld.com is not the home site for msql, but for some reason that is where the port Makefile looks... The msql port is completely out of date. The current version is msql 2.0.3 Tom