Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:02:25 -0700 (PDT) From: alissa bader <mol666@yahoo.com> To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get ports collection to work Message-ID: <20010417160225.2354.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3ADBCC27.211EC212@urx.com>
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--- Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> wrote: > 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. well, I opted for the "elephant gun" solution and have successfully done a re-cvsup. I even was able to install bash1, via the ports collection. However, I was not able to successfully start the install of gnome -- specifically it died when it was trying to install python. I will post later on to this list with more details. However. Most other things seem to work :> Thank you so much for the help, I sure do appreciate it :> --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
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