6.2 AMD64 Ports Problem

[Kris Kennaway]

forum at redpuppy.net wrote:
> Thats weird. When I updated using cvsup it updated all of the ports in my
> /usr/ports directory. I then ran "make install" on /usr/ports/x11/xorg, it then
> looks for dri-7.0.1,2.tbz, but that file isn't in
> amd64/packages-6.2-release/latest or amd64/packages-6.2-release/graphics/. It is
> only in the packages-7-release/graphics directory. 
> Why would xorg require a app that isn't in my current build? How do I get around
> it if I cant use the packages-7-release files?

A couple of points:

1) 'make install' doesn't try to install packages, it installs ports. 
In particular 'make install' doesn't fetch packages from the FTP site, 
these are added by pkg_add -r (and other commands).

2) Updated packages for 6.x are in the packages-6-stable/ directory.

Kris