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Date:      Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:04:29 -0500
From:      Randy Kunkee <randy@randallkunkee.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        so@server.i-clue.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup updater failed
Message-ID:  <3B6AD99C.FBC52770@randallkunkee.com>
References:  <3B6A3BEC.831D0D56@randallkunkee.com> <3B6A508D.2FCBB24F@i-clue.de> <15210.50975.539753.727930@guru.mired.org>

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Mike Meyer wrote:

> Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> types:
> > - update the CVSup port (not the CVSup-bin port!)
>
> Warning about this one: you should consider updating from the package,
> not the port. If you update the port, you'll wind up installing a
> modula compiler system to install it (which is why cvsup-bin existed
> in the first place). If you do build the port, you'll want to set
> STATIC=yes as otherwise you'll need to keep the modula runtime
> libraries as well. The package avoids that by building STATIC.
>
>         <mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>                      http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
> Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.

I just recently installed the package cvsup-16.1_1.tgz, which I think is the
latest.  Perhaps I did not look carefully enough -- I thought the file with the
strange name was on the mirror and not on my system.  All is well now.  Thanks to
everyone for the help.

Randy


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