Vim port problem

[Fernando Apesteguía]

2009/4/19 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/19 Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have the latest version of the ports collection (gotten with
>> portsnap). I performed a whole update of my system (FreeBSD
>> 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12). Everything went fine save the vim port.
>>
>
> An upgrade of the base system Should Not(Tm) affect installed ports
> under normal conditions.
>
>> It is unable to download vim-7.2.tar.bz2 despite the fact that the URL
>> portupgrade tries to download from, exists:
>> http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.2.tar.bz2
>> It was unable to download the file from any other sites. Several
>> different errors (Move permanently, range request not satisfiable...)
>>
>
> I am unfamiliar with automated port utilities.  What happens if you do
> the following?:
>   cd /usr/ports/editors/vim; make deinstall distclean; make install clean

It fetches all the files from the remote site without problems and it
installs it.

>
>> However, I downloaded that file from the first site using 'fetch',
>> place the file in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim and I could install the
>> package...
>>
>
> Don't confuse ports and packages.  They are two different ways to
> install third-party software (until they are installed -- then
> everything is a package).

Sorry, change "package" for "port". What I wanted to say is: when
installing the port, it couldn't download one of the needed files
(vim-7.2.tar.bz2). After I did it by hand, it could install the port
(compiling and all the stuff) because portupgrade found the file
already downloaded in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim.

>
>> Any ideas on this problem?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> Glen Barber
>