Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:02:10 -0500 From: Erik Greenwald <erik@smluc.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What gives? Message-ID: <200105092302.SAA25871@smluc.org>
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> > Ok when you say none were successful, what exactly was happening ? > > The "the thing broken" statement doesn't help much if we don't know what > the thing is. > <snip> A few problems cropped up when I was reinstalling ports last weekend. The packages refused to install correctly. I'd let the thing go recursive and when it failed, I'd go into the port it failed in and run make. That'd immediately give me another sh prompt, so I'd do "make install", which did the same. The files, however, were not in place. So I did 'make deinstall', which told me that the package was not installed, and 'make install' again. For some reason, it'd succeed on the second make install. *shrug* This happened quite often when I was installing all the ports I like, and irritated me, but I didn't have time to dig in and solve it :) Another issue I was up against was that Mk/bsd.port.mk still has the fallback ftp server as ftp://ftp.freebsd.org which I guess is cached in my host table because I'm hitting the machine that that no longer allows anon ftp. That's probably all my end :) The final issue was that some of the ports were hopelessly out of date, and the servers didn't have old copies laying around. One particularly unpleasant occurance was print/tex :) I should probly email that person and complain that 7.2[ab] is dead and 7.3.3 is the only one on the servers :) -Erik <erik@smluc.org> [http://math.smsu.edu/~erik] The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability, they are random rambling, and to be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep Refrigerated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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