From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 19 19:32:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from paradox.dyn.dhs.org (okc-94-239-104.mmcable.com [24.94.239.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5787637B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:32:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mgrant@localhost) by paradox.dyn.dhs.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAL3WrB20903; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:32:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mgrant@paradox.dyn.dhs.org) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:32:52 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark R. Grant" To: Jason Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports / compile problem In-Reply-To: <3A18707B.4A094D54@satx.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Jason wrote: > greetings, > > i searched the archives but found nothing, so please don't yell :) > > how do i update my /usr/ports to the latest ports software? not > that I want to download all the software, just the ports > collection. Your best bet is to run the 'cvsup' program to synchronize your ports tree. > > also I am having some problems when it comes to compiling some > particular ports. for example when trying to install /usr/ports/ > gimp1, it fails on aalib-1.2 because the file had a mismatch > in the checksum.. how do I go about trying to install the > port from scratch? (so it will re-download the software again) > > i have tried make clean, but that doesn't seem to work. > "make deinstall" - does exactly that "make clean" - removes the object/source code from the port, essentially returning the port tree to just that. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message