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Date:      Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:37:08 +0200
From:      Olivier Tharan <olive@oban.frmug.org>
To:        FreeBSD-Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TeX port ver 3.14159_1 - can't find distfiles?
Message-ID:  <20030828073707.GB27327@weirdos.oban.frmug.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030827194203.S5182@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20030827194203.S5182@seekingfire.com>

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* Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> (20030827 19:42):
> The distfiles don't appear to exist on any of the sources the port knows
> about. That's been the case for at least several days now.
> 
> <snip>
> >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/tex and try again.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Is this a known problem?

As far as I followed earlier discussions on the subject, everyone will
tell you to install teTeX instead, as it gives you a better TeX
distribution. Perhaps we can discuss the removal of the tex and latex
ports, eventually.

-- 
olive



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