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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:05:18 +0200
From:      Christian Burger <cj@raxel.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   problem installing ports - Newbie Alert!
Message-ID:  <39A2262E.369C7E8A@raxel.com>

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Hi

I've been trying to install ports from the FreeBSD 4.0 CD set, and have
run into some problems:

when i run 'make' from the ports directory /usr/ports/whatever/ (i did
untar the ports.tgz file from the 1st cdrom) it says that it did not
find whatever.tgz on the system and will try to get it from
http://whatever.com. According to the documentation, when you have the
cdrom mounted in /cdrom it will install from the cdrom. When i look at
the Makefile it has a list of ftp or http servers, where it could try
install from, but it does not reference the /cdrom anywhere? Do i need
to issue a special flag to the 'make' command for it to go look in the
/cdrom? I've also noticed that the actual package tar file name does not
match the package tar file name on the cdrom, (XFree86-4.0.tgz on the
cd, but in the Makefile it looks for X400.... for instance). 

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Christian


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