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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:37:18 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
To:        "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: more problems with ports
Message-ID:  <053e01c09494$5e3b7740$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
References:  <04ca01c09480$721e7fa0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <003f01c0948b$b454df80$6100000a@vladsempire.net>

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G'day Josh

thanks for the comments


> 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.
> 
OK ..... that certainly sounds like what has happened here
> 
> 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?

By "instructions" I was referring to the stuff that comes with source 
code .... occasionally the things are intelligible but all too often they 
are only suitable for experts. Thats why I always try to install stuff
from either sysinstall or ports first.




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