Subject: Re: dptutil help
To: David B. <incomex@hotmail.com>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 03/29/2006 09:32:57
David B. wrote:
>> Please just update your pkgsrc checkout and try building it again. If
>> you find that dptutil definitely works on your OpenBSD-3.8/sparc64
>> system, please let us know so that we can update the the list of
>> platforms for which this utility can work.
>
> I don't know what you mean by that? do you want me to go back and
> re-download
> pkgsrc altogether and re-./bootstrap it? or do you want me to re-use the
> makefile to automatically re-download the dptutil again?
You can certainly do that, but the recommended way to fetch and update
pkgsrc is via AnonCVS[1]. After you update your pkgsrc, please just try
to build sysutils/dptutil again.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
[1] http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html#bootstrap