Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:36:11 -0600 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: not able to make ports Message-ID: <19990330143611.A2546@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <370116CE.C23FEB9B@math.missouri.edu>; from Stephen Montgomery-Smith on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 12:24:14PM -0600 References: <199903301412.AA21609@bolero-x.rahul.net> <19990330101011.A49146@nuxi.com> <370116CE.C23FEB9B@math.missouri.edu>
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Yes.. do what the message says and it will work. paul Stephen Montgomery-Smith (stephen@math.missouri.edu) wrote: > Today, whenever I tried to make a port, I got the message: > > Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You need a fresh make > world or an upgrade kit. Please go to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ or > a mirror site and follow the instructions > > So I upgraded to today's stable, and it still didn't work. (I use CTM, > I got up to src-3.0076 if that helps.) > > I finally traced it down to a missing file: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion, > and by hand I inserted todays date: 19990330, and now it all works > fine. > > But shouldn't this have been done automatically by some process? > Did I miss something? > > -- > > Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu > 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu > Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu > University of Missouri-Columbia > Columbia, MO 65211 > USA > > Phone (573) 882 4540 > Fax (573) 882 1869 > > http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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