Re: FreeBSD ports collection and GNUStep

[Steve Nunez]

This helped, however now the actual files don't seem to be on the 
gnustep site:

>> gnustep-make-1.0.1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in 
/usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/.
fetch: gnustep-make-1.0.1.tar.gz: Operation timed out
...
>> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
fetch: gnustep-make-1.0.1.tar.gz: Operation timed out
>> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
>> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.

One thought -- does the ports mechanism use passive ftp? I'm wondering 
if our firewall could be the problem here. All of our other ftp 
facilities seem to work though, so I doubt it.

Reards,
        - Steve

On Friday, June 29, 2001, at 12:17 PM, Kim Shrier wrote:

> The port for gnustep 1.0.2 was updated on Jun 27 03:02.  Do you have
> the latest version?  The current port does not contain any patch
> files.  Get
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/devel/gnustep.tar,
> unpack it in /usr/ports/devel, and see if it works.
>
> Kim
>
> Steve Nunez wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Has anyone successfully build the latest GNUStep version (1.0.2) from
> > the FreeBSD ports collection? I'm working with FreeBSD 4.3-stable, and
> > after getting the latest ports collection and trying to install I get:
> >
> > luna# make
> > ===>  Patching for gnustep-1.0.2
> > ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for gnustep-1.0.2
> > patch: **** can't cd to /usr/ports/devel/gnustep/work/gnustep-1.0.2: No
> > such file or directory
> > > > Patch patch-aa failed to apply cleanly.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnustep.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnustep.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnustep.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnustep.
> >
> > What are these patches?
> >
> > Regards,
> >         - Steve
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss-gnustep mailing list
> > Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
>
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