On 9/7/07, Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, cothrige wrote:
assumption that one must run two cvsup operations with two separate
supfiles to update both the core OS and the ports. Am I understanding
this correctly?
No. It is not must. You can update your source
On 9/7/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:53:09AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Sorry. What I really had in mind was the ports tree itself, which I
had an option during install to add. BTW, I answered yes to this and
so had that which was on the 6.2 install
On 9/7/07, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Howdy, and thanks for the help.
[snip]
I have downloaded the FreeBSD 6.2 install discs and have finished the
Just stick with 6.2 for the moment.
I had thought this might be the best method, and so figured I would
for some time
I know this is going to be a very dumb question, but I just can't seem
to get my mind around exactly what is involved and what I should do
regarding this issue. I understand from reading the handbook that the
ports system is completely separate from the OS itself, and that these
can be upgraded
* Garrett Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Btw (Off-topic, but true):
Nothing in Gentoo (or FreeBSD or any other variant of Unix for that
matter) says you have to install KDE ;). You can install the same
metapackage in any Unix OS, if you love the bloat--uh, I mean
functionality--or use
* Tore Lund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the
gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with
6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way:
pkg_add [no line break]
I am a complete newb to BSD trying to get started learning a bit about
how to make my way in it. I have been using Slackware over the last
four years or so, and this has made me a bit used to one way of doing
things and now the FreeBSD way is kind of rattling me.
For some background, I installed
