Troubles with ports...

[Muhammad Ali]

Danny MacMillan wrote:

>This is normal behaviour.  The ports collection does not include
>qt-x11-free-3.3.2.tar.bz2.  In broad terms, the ports collection does not
>contain =any= software.  Rather, it contains instructions for obtaining and
>building software to run on your FreeBSD system.  When you "make install" a
>certain port A, it will first make those ports A depends on, and each port
>THOSE ports depend on, and so on until it comes to a port that doesn't
>depend on anything you don't already have installed.  It will recursively
>traverse the dependencies until finally it is able to make the port you
>asked it to make.
>
>If I understand you correctly, this is an issue because your fetch is not
>working through your authenticated ftp proxy.  I believe you're going to be
>less frustrated dealing with that problem first.  Otherwise you'll have to
>manually fetch every distfile for /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and all ports it
>depends on, directly or indirectly, and that is a =lot= of files, presuming
>you can manually retrieve these files.
>
>You should also be aware that building a mega-package like kde from source
>is quite a lengthy process, even on relatively fast hardware.  You may wish
>instead to install binary packages.  Ordinarily a reference to pkg_add -r is
>included at this point, but you may have trouble even with that unless and
>until you get your ftp proxy issue resolved.
>
>--
>Danny
>
>  
>
Thanks for the detailed response. I was confused because i stupidly 
assumed ports.tar.gz has everything.

I think i'll go with the packages now... and i'll get them from the cd...

Thanks again...