Clicking on Terminal crashes XFCE4

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Mar 24 14:03:09 PDT 2009


On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Jack L. wrote:
> You can use cvs.
> rm -rf your /usr/ports
> cd /usr
> cvs -d anoncvs at anoncvs.fr.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs co ports
> and then try installing the port you want to install.

Why go to all that effort when you can just 'csup ports-supfile'?

> Also, rm -rf /var/db/ports/* to clear out the previous make options
> and see if you need to reconfigure some options.

ITYM "irretrievably blow away every option setting for all of your 
installed ports".  Which is pretty drastic advice when 'make rmconfig' 
will clear just one port's settings.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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