Incomplete Ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:46:28PM -0700, BSD wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:41:51PM -0600, Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote:
> > Hello, I'm working on creating a FreeSBIE CD as a new project of mine.  I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Thu Mar 18 20:46:44 CST 2004.
> >  
> > I've been installing a bunch of different utilities so that I can get them on the CD but I've run into a few that have incomplete ports. For example, /usr/ports/sysutils/fileutils/ has just a README.html file in it.  I just ran cvsup to update my ports tree and no change.  I checked at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ and could only search up to the 5.1-RELEASE ports tree.
> >  
> > I've got a list of 18 ports that has only this README.html file so it doesn't seem to be just a random occurance.
> 
> Not random. Those ports got moved/renamed/removed to something else. For
> example, fileutils got renamed to coreutils. Look up those ports in
> freshports.org to see what happened to them:
> 
> For fileutils:
>   http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fileutils

Or just read /usr/ports/MOVED

Kris
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