Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:39:37 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Robert Inder <R.Inder@ed.ac.uk> Cc: ports@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem with Ports (DOCNUMENTATION BUG) Message-ID: <20001202153937.C1968@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <f51itp42etm.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>; from R.Inder@ed.ac.uk on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 06:09:57PM %2B0000 References: <f51itp42etm.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 06:09:57PM +0000, Robert Inder wrote: > > I've just had a problem with a port. > > I am running FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE. > > I fetched the port for linux-netscape-6, and did a "make". > After the make, I tried to "make install", and it failed > because it could not find the file list. > > A friend told me that whereas in the past, ports had a "pkg" directory > containing "DESCR", "COMMENT" and "PLIST" files, they now just > have pkg-descr, pkg-comment and pkg-plist files. The netscape package > had the latter, and my system was looking for the former. Simply making > the "pkg" directory and copying the files appropriately seemed to fix > the problem. > > BUT.... > this, surely, isn't the right answer, is it? > > There is, presumably, some "official" way to update my system's ports > processing make files. > > And the obvious place to look for how to do this is the > Ports pages at www.FreeBSD.org. Actually, what you're looking for is there, not in the Ports pages, but in the Handbook :) Look at http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/synching.html, it describes how to pull the latest versions of the source tree and/or the ports tree. In your case, you need to update your ports collection, and especially the ports-base collection - the one which holds all the /usr/ports/Mk/ makefiles doing all the magic behind the scenes when building ports :) If you encounter any problems with updating your source/ports tree, please post questions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Hope that helps :) G'luck, Peter -- If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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