From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 16:36:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B38A37B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9 (hutch-458.hutchtel.net [209.105.45.186]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA07056; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:35:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <003f01c0948b$b454df80$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Doug Young" , References: <04ca01c09480$721e7fa0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Subject: Re: more problems with ports Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:35:00 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Young" To: 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