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Date:      Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:28:01 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        taxman <taxman@acd.net>
Cc:        knu@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ports installation, maxima
Message-ID:  <20030328002801.GA17426@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200303261703.58415.taxman@acd.net>
References:  <200303262015.44964.otto@bernhardi.com> <200303261703.58415.taxman@acd.net>

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:03:58PM -0500, taxman wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 02:15 pm, User &Otto Ernst Bernhardi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for providing FreeBSD!!
> >
> > I downloaded the ports.tar.gz file from your site.
> >
> > While trying to install /usr/ports/math/Maxima from the ports collectio=
n, I
> > get the following problem.
> >
> > Distfiles not up-to-date or missing? Or, more likely, did I do something
> > wrong??
>=20
> you need to update your ports tree to the latest.  The newest ports tree =
looks=20
> for new versions of the files and those are the only ones kept around on =
the=20
> ftp servers.  Read up on cvsup.  You'll find you'll want to cvsup your po=
rts=20
> tree fairly often.  Once a week or so depending on your needs.
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

Actually I think this port is indeed broken, because it seems that knu
updated it without making the new distfiles available anywhere.

Kris

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