From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 10 4:27:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2505D37B409; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.167]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06545; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:21:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA26030; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:21:25 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:21:25 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: Greg , www@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad ports Message-ID: <20010810132125.A25941@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <3B730E0C.637BA715@avalon.net> <01080921253400.00590@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <01080921253400.00590@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:25:34PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001-08-09 21:25:34 -0400, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2001 18:27, Greg wrote: > > What I am used to I guess is when I click the Download link under a port I > > expect to download the port. > > I think that I speak for many of us here when I say that I have no idea what > you are talking about when you discuss "clicking" on a "port". I'm sure Greg means the cgi script: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?amanda24 the tar on the fly was disabled some months ago due the ftp.freebsd.org crash. I will enable it again. Thanks for the note, -Wolfram > The conventional way to build a port is cd /usr/ports/catagory/port > and then do a > make > or > make download > or whatever. > > Do you mean that if you "make download" it's not downloading? > > Or are you using some special client application to install ports? > If so, details of what application you are using to view the ports would be > enlightening. > > > That is, a tar of the directory containing the > > Makefile, distinfo, files dir, and so on. > > what I am getting instead is an open ftp client waiting inside that > > directory. Now, I suppose that I can build the requisite directories my > > self and mget the stuff in batches, but it kind of defeats the point of the > > download link, now, doesn't it? (besides invalidating the claim made in the > > intro to the ports) > > > > The ports in question are the amanda ports (all of them!) > > here is one of the exact urls I used > > (note this is what the link download (shown below) went to > > ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/misc/amanda24-se > >rver/ > > > > > > amanda24-server-2.4.2p2_1 > > The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver > > Maintained by: jeh@FreeBSD.org > > Requires: amanda24-client-2.4.2p2_1, gettext-0.10.35, gmake-3.79.1, > > gtar-1.13.19, libtool-1.3.4_2 > > Description : Sources : Package : Changes : Download - Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message