Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:41:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: almazs@wgn.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: where is the source? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807281240280.21490-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35BAC82E.1159@wgn.net>
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 almazs@wgn.net wrote: > How to get a copy of the source for ports collections > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Reading the documentation on "Installing Application"; "The port > collection" 4.2. "How does the port collection work?" the following > error message out put is shown as an example: > > >> ElectricFence-2.0.5.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/c/. > > The `make' program has noticed that you did not have a local copy of the > source code and tried to FTP it down so it could get > the job done. I already had the source handy in my example, so it did > not need to fetch it. > > this means: > No local copy of the source is available on the system ! Yup :) > How is a copy of the source installed on the system? during installation > when asked if you would like to install ports collections or is done > afterwards? my machine keeps barfing-out the above message even though I > have selected to install full sources and binaries and ports collection > of selected types. Normally, the source files (called distribution files or distfiles) are not copied to the hard drive since they take up a CD on their own. :) If you have the FreeBSD CDs, you can mount disc #3 on /cdrom and the ports system will find it automatically. Otherwise you can copy the file(s) it wants to /usr/ports/distfiles/. Note that the automatic fetch will download the distfile for you into the distfiles directory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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