From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 9: 2:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web804.mail.yahoo.com (web804.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2065337B634 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mol666@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 2355 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Apr 2001 16:02:26 -0000 Message-ID: <20010417160225.2354.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [192.9.25.11] by web804.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:02:25 PDT Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:02:25 -0700 (PDT) From: alissa bader Subject: Re: can't get ports collection to work To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3ADBCC27.211EC212@urx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Kent Stewart 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