Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:05:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Makefile for OpenSSL not working Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007210156100.10627-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <20000720154042.A54405@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Ken Seggerman ken_seggerman@suleyman.com > > I am running FreeBSD 3.3 Release (off of the CDROM) with the > > 34upgrade-2000.02.02 upgrade package on a laptop. > > Even though I have manually ported openssl-0.9.5a.tar.gz into > > /usr/ports/distfiles, I get the following error: > > > > # make > > >> .tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > > >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.openssl.org/source/. > > fetch: .tar.gz: www.openssl.org: HTTP server returned error code 404 > > ...snip > > fetch: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this > > >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop. > > *** Error code 1 > > You cvsup'd ports without cvsup'ing ports-base. Get ports-base too. > I didn't cvsup, I downloaded the tar.gz file from www.FreeBSD.org/ports/security.html How do I get the ports-base? Is there one for each port, each category or one for each release? What does a ports-base look like? The handbook (and the Greg Lehey book) says to download and untar the skeleton and run make. Thank you for your time. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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