From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 15:42:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00786 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00718 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:42:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00510; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:41:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Magnus cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports won't build In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Magnus wrote: > Dear Tech supporters, > > I realize your time is valuable and you have thousands of questions > to answer daily. It's more on the order of 150/day, but I get the hyperbole. :) > I managed to create a symbolic link between /usr/ports/distfiles > and /cdrom/ports/distfiles. I did this with the following procedure: > [stuff] The ports Make system will automatically search in /cdrom/ports/distfiles. You deleted the error messages from the fetch procedure so I don't know why they failed. Perhaps the master site is down? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message