FreeBSD Port: limewire-4.9

Panagiotis Astithas past at ebs.gr
Mon Jan 30 03:07:58 PST 2006


Anthony D. Fratto wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am sorry to be a bother.
> 
> I have downloaded limewire-4.9, from the FreeBSD ports, when i attempted 
> to run make, i get the error
> 
> BSDWolf# make
> => LimeWireOther.zip doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from http://maverick.limewire.com/download/.
> fetch: http://maverick.limewire.com/download/LimeWireOther.zip: size 
> mismatch: expected 5496146, actual 6107368
> => Attempting to fetch from 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> fetch: 
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/LimeWireOther.zip: 
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /root/limewire.
> BSDWolf#                               
> Please advise, And thankyou in Advance for any and all help you can give 
> me in this matter :-)

The port probably needs an update. You can submit one yourself. Change 
the PORTVERSION line in the Makefile to (I guess) 4.10, remove the 
distinfo file and then do:
# make fetch
# make makesum
# make install

If everything goes well, do a 'make clean' and send a PR with your changes.

Cheers,

Panagiotis


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