On Monday 12 December 2005 14:24, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 11 December 2005 06:10 pm, RW wrote: > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the > > > mplayer-skins port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the > > > skins port being broken a lot because the source files are often > > > unfetchable, so I removed the port (I can't remember what method I > > > used to do that now). > > > > A much better solution is to: > > > > cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins && make config > > > > then deselect everything, but the default skin. > > > > Since I did that I haven't had any problem with unfetchable skins. > > If you go into distfiles/mplayer and rm all of the files that are out of > date, you won't have any problem either. IIRC, the names haven't > changed but the MD5 and sizes have and it won't refetch them until you > remove them. The skins aren't broken. There is something slightly out > of whack with the Makefile. > > There may be an easier way but cd and rm * works just fine. > > Kent
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm going with the "choose the default skin only" idea - that way I don't have to editi the make file each time the port is updated. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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