no /usr/ports

[KAYVEN RIESE]

there's not makefile

kayve# pwd
/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0_07
kayve# ls
COPYRIGHT                       include
LICENSE                         jre
README.html                     lib
THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt     man
bin                             sample
demo                            src.zip
kayve#

all the docs are for other platforms

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:50:04AM -0700, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>> ortsnap: URL must be given via command line or configuration file.
>> kayve# /usr/local/sbin/portsnap extract
>> No snapshot available.  Try running
>> # portsnap fetch
>> kayve# pkg_add -r cvsup
>> Fetching
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup.tbz...
>> Done.
>> kayve# cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org
>> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
>> cvsup: Command not found.
>> kayve# whereis cvsup
>> cvsup: /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/local/man/man1/cvsup.1.gz
>> kayve# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org
>> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
>> Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?
>> kayve# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup FreeBSD.org
>> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
>> "/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile" is not a directory
>> kayve#
>
> Good grief.
>
> 1) cvsup wasn't found (when you tried to run it) because the shell
>   for root is csh/tcsh.  When binaries are added/removed from
>   directories in $PATH, you're required to type "rehash" to pick
>   up the changes.  This is specific to csh/tcsh.
>
> 2) It doesn't look like the host has its local network configured
>   in a proper manner.  How cvsup determines this is beyond me;
>   your network must work *somehow* since your pkg_add worked.
>
> 3) Your last cvsup attempt was incorrect because you replaced a
>   period/dot in the hostname cvsup.FreeBSD.org with a whitespace,
>   which messed up the arguments passed to cvsup.
>
> -- 
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
> | Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
> | Making life hard for others since 1977.               PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
>