another problem ...

John Wynstra jwynstra at nyc.rr.com
Fri May 16 21:01:16 UTC 2008


I think I should use portsnap.

# portsnap fetch
# portsnap update # since there already is a /usr/ports subtree

John Wynstra wrote:
> I asked Jonathan Chen what was the easiest way to do this.  Was it 
> CSup?  Also how do I check for the latest version?  The manual 
> indicates pkg_version -v does this, but it does not list all ports and 
> in particular not the ones I am interested in which are in 
> /usr/ports/editors.  Is there a way to get these?  Does one get all 
> the ports at one shot which might be useful as I don't know where I am 
> going wrong.  Or just the one?
>
> Jonathan Chen wrote:
>> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:58:22PM -0400, John Wynstra wrote:
>>  
>>> I cleaned up and reran the make install ...
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> ===>   openoffice.org-2.3.1 depends on file: 
>>> /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found
>>> ===>  Patching for openoffice.org-2.3.1
>>>     
>>
>> You need to update your ports tree. The current version is 2.4.0_5.
>>
>> Please consult the Handbook on how to keep your ports-tree up to date:
>>
>>   
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html


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