On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > # pwd > > /stuff/mutella > > > > (I had to manually download each of the following since the adding the .tar > > trick did not -- as usual -- work!)
What I meant by that was the "trick" where you can use the command "fetch" to request a directory.tar and it basically tars on the fly. For example, `fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/branches/current-/ports/etc/somedirectory.tar` > > # ls -al > > total 12 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 3 23:49 . > > drwxr-xr-x 34 root wheel 2560 Nov 3 23:49 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 650 Nov 3 23:48 Makefile > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 62 Nov 3 23:48 distinfo > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 31 Nov 3 23:48 pkg-comment > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 174 Nov 3 23:48 pkg-descr > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3317 Nov 3 23:48 pkg-plist > > Which tar trick are you referring to? Apparently you have chosen not to > download an entire ports tree, which is fine, but you could have just > done a "locate bsd.port.mk" on a machine that DOES have a ports tree. I was referring to the trick that saves you from having to ftp in using w3m or lynx and manually saving each of the above, as I had to, above. > > # make > > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4: Could not find /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > > What is bsd.port.mk, where can I get it or pkg_add it, then am I all set? > The files in /usr/ports/Mk are what makes the ports tree work. The > Makefile that you downloaded there is just a list of options that > bsd.port.mk uses to build the ports. > > You need the bsd.*.mk framework to make your ports work. You can just > cvsup the ports-base collection. From the ports-supfile example that > came with your installation of FreeBSD: I'm not sure I want my ports to work, just one specific port at a time. > # Be sure to ALWAYS cvsup the ports-base collection if you use any of the > # other individual collections below. ports-base is a mandatory collection > # for the ports collection, and your ports may not build correctly if it > # is not kept up to date. > > If you have a ports-all supfile, you can issue the following: > cvsup /path/to/supfile -i ports/Mk > cvsup /path/to/supfile -i ports/net/mutella > > If you can't/won't diagnose what's wrong when you try new things, it's best > not to invent tricks. > - -Adam > Adam Weinberger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm looking for a way to download just one set of ported source by not using cvsup, then `make install clean` or `gmake install clean` whichever. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
