xmule && 6.0-REL

[Jonathan Chen]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:43:12AM +0100, guru at Sisis.de wrote:
> El d?a Friday, February 10, 2006 a las 02:28:43PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert escribi?:
> 
> > guru at Sisis.de writes:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've tried to install xmule in 6.0-REL from the ports
> > > collection, but the port is broken:
> > > 
> > > # cd /usr/ports/net/xmule
> > > # make
> > > ===>  xmule-1.10.0.a is marked as broken: Incomplete pkg-plist.
> > > #
> > > 
> > > the FreeBSD homepage shows a recent version but in a tree which
> > > 6.0-REL not has: /usr/ports/net-p2p
> > > 
> > > What is the correct way to update this tree into my 6.0-REL?
> > 
> > See the FreeBSD Handbook chapter titled "The Cutting Edge."
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
> 
> Thanks for the hint but I don't belong to the 3 groups of persons
> mentioned in chapter '21.2.1.2 Who Needs FreeBSD-CURRENT' :-)
> I can't put CURRENT on my notebook and lock me out of the world
> if is does not boot anymore. I only wanted to test a small piece
> of the ports collection.

You don't need -CURRENT. You only need to update your ports-tree to
be up-to-date. Installing by hand is possible, but you lose all the
advantages of using the ports-tree; ie clean deinstalls, coherent
management of build and run dependancies, FreeBSD specific tweaks.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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