Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:35:00 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: more problems with ports Message-ID: <003f01c0948b$b454df80$6100000a@vladsempire.net> References: <04ca01c09480$721e7fa0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 5:13 PM Subject: more problems with ports >Would someone please enlighten me on how to install ANYTHING from ports without always getting >"Stop in /usr/ports/xxxxxxxxxx" >"*** Error code 1" >Some time ago someone on this list advised me to setup CVSUP, so I have that updating ports daily & source weekly, >however it appears to have made the ports problem worse. Recently an attic cleaning of the ports tree was done. For reasons that I won't go into, cvsup can't really update the ports properly after that happens. The fix is to rm -rf /usr/ports and then re cvsup. Be sure to save the contents of /ports/distfiles if there are any tarballs you want to save. >Previously only some ports were afflicted by the "Error 1" bug, now it appears that every one has the same problem. If all >ports were available as a sysinstall package it wouldn't be a problem, but seems the number of sysinstall packages is being >decreased with later versions of FreeBSD. Not all of us wish to compile everything from source, especially as the instructions >aren't always as descriptive as they could be for non-experts. I haven't run into very many ports at all that won't install with a simple make install. What instructions are you talking about? >If I simply download the relevant distfile & pop it in /usr/ports/distfiles, will that be an effective workaround for this >problem ?? Sure...if you can find it. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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