Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:00:32 -0500 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: "Wonderful One" <hellaenergy@hellaweb.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (-: Ports Question :-) Message-ID: <4267825698.20010130190032@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLEAIKDEGHDGAPLJMCEODCMAA.hellaenergy@hellaweb.com> References: <NEBBLEAIKDEGHDGAPLJMCEODCMAA.hellaenergy@hellaweb.com>
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Tuesday, January 30, 2001, 5:52:52 PM, you wrote: WO> When you get a port from the ports site where are you supposed to untar it WO> from on your box? Are you supposed to untar it from root (/)? My ports WO> branch is /usr/ports the tar goes: WO> pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/........? Is there something I am WO> missing here? The method I use is to just copy the port into the WO> /usr/ports/whatever/myportis. WO> Stupid question but would love to know the answer, though. WO> Wonderful One Try this: Download the file into /usr/ports/distfiles. This is where the makefile should look if it can't fetch teh file from the internet. I don't believe you have to untar it though, as it should look for the .gz format. -- Good Luck, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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