From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 15:52:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BF716A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:52:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from connectmail.carleton.ca (connectmail.carleton.ca [134.117.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912D743D2F for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:52:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@magnesium.net) Received: from [192.168.1.141] ([134.117.145.25]) by connectmail.carleton.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTPSA id <0I7U004SDHEPVI@connectmail.carleton.ca> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:52:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:53:30 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger In-reply-to: <20041127143559.70103.qmail@web52608.mail.yahoo.com> To: Guillermo Sobalvarro Message-id: <41A8A2FA.30505@magnesium.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) References: <20041127143559.70103.qmail@web52608.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with ports lately? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:52:02 -0000 Guillermo Sobalvarro wrote: > Hello. I've been using FreeBSD for a number of years > now on i386 and recently am having plenty of problems > building ports. Either they don't build and complain > this or that is missing, or ask taht I download and > install x or y port first (sometimes this is already > there and never happend in the past), etc. > > I've deleted and FTP'd the whole ports distribution, > to no avail on 4.9, 4.10 and on 5.3. There is always > some port that screws everything up for me. On 5.3 I > upgraded the whole ports tree with CVS, did a portsdb > -uU, then a portupgrade -arR and finally a pkgdb -F > (just in case). Here is my 5.3 cvs-supfile: > > *default host=cvsup2.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 delete > use-rel-suffix compress > src-all tag=. This is neither a 5.3 supfile, nor a ports supfile. This only gets 6.0-CURRENT sources. Change the last line to: src-all ports-all tag=. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx