From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 17:37:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F3A37B491 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1C1aqE11543; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:36:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <053e01c09494$5e3b7740$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Josh Paetzel" , References: <04ca01c09480$721e7fa0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <003f01c0948b$b454df80$6100000a@vladsempire.net> Subject: Re: more problems with ports Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:37:18 +1000 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message