Problems with ports lately?
Adam Weinberger
adamw at magnesium.net
Sat Nov 27 07:52:02 PST 2004
Guillermo Sobalvarro wrote:
> Hello. I've been using FreeBSD for a number of years
> now on i386 and recently am having plenty of problems
> building ports. Either they don't build and complain
> this or that is missing, or ask taht I download and
> install x or y port first (sometimes this is already
> there and never happend in the past), etc.
>
> I've deleted and FTP'd the whole ports distribution,
> to no avail on 4.9, 4.10 and on 5.3. There is always
> some port that screws everything up for me. On 5.3 I
> upgraded the whole ports tree with CVS, did a portsdb
> -uU, then a portupgrade -arR and finally a pkgdb -F
> (just in case). Here is my 5.3 cvs-supfile:
>
> *default host=cvsup2.freebsd.org
> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 delete
> use-rel-suffix compress
> src-all tag=.
This is neither a 5.3 supfile, nor a ports supfile. This only gets
6.0-CURRENT sources. Change the last line to:
src-all
ports-all tag=.
# Adam
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