Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:09:57 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "your system is too old" ?? Message-ID: <20000310210957.B18898@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIGEANCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>; from cjm2@earthling.net on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:18:33PM -0500 References: <200002281651.QAA29279@loki.ideaglobal.com> <NDBBILKDCLLECBCLPMBIGEANCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net>
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:18:33PM -0500, C J Michaels wrote: > Who are you building the port as? a regular user or as root? > > If not as root, try building it as root, because I had this exact same > problem when I ran mergemaster with a umask of 0077. There is a file in > /etc that make needs to be able to read, I can't remember the exact name at > the moment. It contains the current version number of your FreeBSD. Maybe > someone else on the list knows which file it is. /var/db/port.mkversion In /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, .if ${OSVERSION} >= 300000 # You need an upgrade kit or make world newer than this BSDPORTMKVERSION= 20000201 .if exists(/var/db/port.mkversion) VERSIONFILE= /var/db/port.mkversion .else VERSIONFILE= ${PKG_DBDIR}/.mkversion .endif .if exists(${VERSIONFILE}) .if !defined(SYSTEMVERSION) SYSTEMVERSION!= cat ${VERSIONFILE} .endif .else SYSTEMVERSION= 0 .endif .if ${BSDPORTMKVERSION} > ${SYSTEMVERSION} IGNORE= ": Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the instructions" .endif .endif -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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