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Date:      09 Nov 1999 10:31:37 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports/packages
Message-ID:  <867ljsukuu.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: Fredrik Carlen's message of "Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:33:48 %2B0100"
References:  <99110900462302.00426@machine.beastie.org>

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Fredrik Carlen <fredrik.carlen@telia.com> writes:

> Let me just get this straight: All the packages that were available
> for the time of my version's release are on the CD's, but not
> necessarily the tarballs required to build the ports?
> 
> I tried to port lynx, and put all the even remotely lynx-looking
> tarballs into /usr/ports/distfiles/ , and then switched directory to
> /usr/ports/www/lynx/ and did 'make', but it still tried to fetch the
> tarball by ftp, and since my ppp-connection wasn't up, it failed. What
> have _I_ failed to understand?

Was the version that you put in `distfiles' the right one?

Was it lynx that it tried to download or some other dependency of it?

A small error log would be tremendously helpful :-)

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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