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From: root@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Charlie &)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems installing ports
Date: 18 Sep 1996 02:39:40 +0100
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Alex McLean (alex@area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk) wrote:
: I'm a new FreeBSD sysadmin and am trying to install some ports, but am
: having problems.  I type make, it can't find the correct file locally so
: tries to ftp it, which is fine.  However, it invokes ncftp with a -N
: parameter, which doesn't exist, so it fails.  

: The big problem is that I can't find where the port makefiles are calling 
: ncftp so I can defenestrate this option.

Have a look in /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk.  FETCH_CMD is set to
/usr/bin/fetch by default, but may be overridden in the individual
Makefiles.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....