Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:29:45 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: fredrik.carlen@telia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/packages Message-ID: <19991109182945.B316@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <78661.942143206@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <99110900462302.00426@machine.beastie.org> <78661.942143206@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:26:46PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:33:48 +0100, Fredrik Carlen wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> No. The CD sets include all the distributable packages and all the
> distributable distfiles.
>
> > 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
>
> Can't help you without the error output you got before it tried to fetch
> the file remotely. Look closely at the filename which the ports
> mechanism expected, look closely at the location in which it expected to
> find that file and look closely at your filesystem. :-)
>
Mounting the CD and symlinking /usr/ports/distfiles to the distfiles
directory on the CD might make life easier too (but maybe not
totally foolproof if the ports distfiles are spread across 2 CDs).
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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