Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:13:26 +0200 From: Nils Holland <nils@frozenfeelings.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Updating the ports-collections (or at least parts of it) Message-ID: <00042017231800.00347@tempest.ncptiddische.net>
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Well, I have a FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE system running and today I read the section in the FreeBSD handbook about the ports system. Although I have been using it for quite a while, today was the first time I really started having an indepth look of what I can do with it besindes simply going to the appropriate directories and saying "make install". In the "Compiling Ports Froth The Internet" section the handbook says how I can get my system to install updated software that was released after 3.4-RELEASE was released. In order to get that working, I first downloaded the update-kit for my system. I added it with pkg_add 34update.tgz (was that correct?). Then I though I'd try the following: I went to a FreeBSD FTP-Server, got the tarred directory siag, deleted my original /usr/ports/math/siag directory and untarred the newly downloaded directory into /usr/ports/math. So far so good. Then I cd'ed into siag and said make. I was waiting to see what was about to happen now, and it was not what I expected. As it tried to fetch the siag-tarball, I got the message: .tar.gz not found (on the FTP-server from where it wanted to download it.) Note that it really said the above, it didn't say <filename>.tar.gz not found, it simply said .tar.gz not found, without a filename. The same thing happens with what ever other port I try to install using the procedure described above. So, after all, it seems that I'm doing something wrong. I hope that someone else can give me a general hint on how to solve the problem... I'm really confused now ;-) Greetings, Nils To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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