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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 04:42:03 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Bill Bumgarner <bbum@codefab.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port problems on clean install
Message-ID:  <14871.44667.137101.473405@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <52574@toto.iv>

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Bill Bumgarner <bbum@codefab.com> types:
> Am I correct in assuming that one should be abel to cd into any of the
> ports in /usr/ports/ after a clean install from a 4.11 cd, type "make
> install" and it should "just work"?

And it usually does.

> It definitely isn't on my system.       When checking to see whether the
> build environment is sane, it complains that "newly created file is
> older than system file".

That's not enough information. How about the last bit of the output of
the make command? Or all of it, if it isn't very long.

> The date/time on the system is correct-- though, looking more closely,
> it appears that it is not taking into account daylight savings time?
> Actually, there doesn't appear to be any option anywhere for either
> setting daylight savings time OR setting the computers clock during
> setup.   This *really* should be a part of the setup as it can grossly
> impact a system's usability if the clock is wrong.

It is part of the system installation process - you're just not forced
to do it. Run /stand/sysinstall, hit the c key, enter, then down arrow
until you get to time zone and hit enter again. That will walk you
through setting the time zone.

	<mike



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