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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:02:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jason T <luser@ahab.com>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: error code 1
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007061900440.374-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20000707014030.C3573@physics.iisc.ernet.in>

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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> > it gives error code 1 and does not go through
> 
> Looks like it could not retrieve the source package.  Are you
> connected to the internet?  And did you try doing what it said --
> ie retrieve the source manually and put it in /usr/ports/distfiles?
> 

And do you have write permissions?  Unless you've changed
ownership/permissions of /usr/ports, you need to do this as root in order
to write to /usr/ports/distfiles and to the port directory



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