From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 10 12:52:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF9C37B403 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h53n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.53]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g5AJqcp10540 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:52:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 47467 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Jun 2002 19:52:34 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:52:34 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Terry J Dunlap Jr Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: linux_base-7.1_2 Message-ID: <20020610195234.GA47435@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Terry J Dunlap Jr , ports@FreeBSD.org References: <1023735210.71199.12.camel@ip201-16.wab.wku.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1023735210.71199.12.camel@ip201-16.wab.wku.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:53:30PM -0500, Terry J Dunlap Jr wrote: > I update my entire ports collection at least once a week. I also use > portupgrade to keep my installed ports current. > > Today I when I visited www.freebsd.org and searched for the > linux_base-7.1 port, it appeared under the categories Emulators and > Linux. However, when I cd /usr/ports/linux I get file doesn't exit. > After listing the ports, indeed there is no Linux folder! > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5. When I CVSup, I update all ports. Why doesn't > the Linux port category update, or better yet even appear in my ports > collection? Am I doing something wrong? > > Thanks for your help! > > Terry You are not doing anything wrong. There is not supposed to be any /usr/ports/linux directory. Some of the port categories (including "linux") are 'virtual' categories that do not correspond to an actual (sub-)directory. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message