From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 20 09:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23702 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from redfish.go2net.com (redfish.go2net.com [207.178.55.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23669 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@go2net.com) Received: from marcs by redfish.go2net.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zKmjH-0006Cr-00; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:52:55 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:52:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@redfish To: Steve Pyrros cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports not available on 2.2.7 In-Reply-To: <000701bde4ad$bef14540$0cb91ecb@office> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Steve Pyrros wrote: > Please excuse my ignorance on freebsd. > I have version 2.2.7 and I have installed the ports. > I can see the ports in /usr/ports > I cant make any of the ports. For example kermit. > It's there as /usr/ports/comms/kermit > I type make; make install and the make program searches the CDROM, fails in the search and then tries to ftp the file from the net, of which I haven't and dont wish to connect at this time. > My question is are the ports on the CDROM and if so where? > I have searched all 4 CDROMs with no luck. kermit can not be distributed on the CDROMs because of its license agreement, as indicated in the Makefile: RESTRICTED= "'No redistribution' copyright" You have to get it from the listed ftp sites yourself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message