On Monday 24 January 2005 06:04 am, Martin Hepworth wrote: > HI > > I think you will need to make cvsup first from the ports directory, > Then use cvsup to get the latest version of ports tree. See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using >.html for more details..
Cvsup changes so slowly that I don't see an purpose in building it from the ports. You have so much extra bagage with building modula (ezm3) that you completely avoid with the package. Kent > > -- > Martin > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:06:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I completed the BSD 5.3 instllation on my Dell Desktop using the > > first CD of the 4 CD set. I installed all the ports and > > distributions in the first CD. But when I tried to 'make install' > > emacs from the /usr/ports/editors/emacs20 directory I get a lot of > > messages which says 'Attemting to fetch from :<ftp site name> : No > > address record And finally an error message which says: > > Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this port manually > > into usr/ports/distfiles and try again Error code 1 > > Same is the case with other softwates and utilities. > > > > I don't have FTP configured on my computer. Do I have to get the > > CVS repository installed? If so please give me the instructions or > > a link. Is it necessary that I install the rest of the CDs? > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"