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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:26:18 -0300 (ADT)
From:      Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca>
To:        Nilmoni Deb <ndeb@ece.cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding a port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008301523210.72618-100000@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca>
In-Reply-To: <39AD4FD7.65DDDA0C@ece.cmu.edu>

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Hi,

Generally when you compile a port it looks in /usr/ports/distfiles
. Sometimes ports (like xemacs I believe) make their own directory in
/usr/ports/distfiles. 

HTH

Theo

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Nilmoni Deb wrote:

> Hi,
>        Where does the port look for the tar.gz file when it gives
> a message "file_name.tar.gz not found in the system" ?
> 
> What is the path where its looking for the tar and gzipped file.
> For example, for porting dvips
> I tried putting dvips576.tar.gz in /usr/ports/print/dvips  and its
> subdirectories
> but still  it had to ftp the file from its ftp site.
> 
> thanks
> - Nil
> 
> 
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