2009/4/19 Glen Barber <[email protected]>: > 2009/4/19 Fernando Apesteguía <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> >> I have the latest version of the ports collection (gotten with >> portsnap). I performed a whole update of my system (FreeBSD >> 7.1-RELEASE-p4 #12). Everything went fine save the vim port. >> > > An upgrade of the base system Should Not(Tm) affect installed ports > under normal conditions. > >> It is unable to download vim-7.2.tar.bz2 despite the fact that the URL >> portupgrade tries to download from, exists: >> http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.2.tar.bz2 >> It was unable to download the file from any other sites. Several >> different errors (Move permanently, range request not satisfiable...) >> > > I am unfamiliar with automated port utilities. What happens if you do > the following?: > cd /usr/ports/editors/vim; make deinstall distclean; make install clean
It fetches all the files from the remote site without problems and it installs it. > >> However, I downloaded that file from the first site using 'fetch', >> place the file in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim and I could install the >> package... >> > > Don't confuse ports and packages. They are two different ways to > install third-party software (until they are installed -- then > everything is a package). Sorry, change "package" for "port". What I wanted to say is: when installing the port, it couldn't download one of the needed files (vim-7.2.tar.bz2). After I did it by hand, it could install the port (compiling and all the stuff) because portupgrade found the file already downloaded in /usr/ports/distfiles/vim. > >> Any ideas on this problem? >> >> Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Glen Barber > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
