2012-02-01 19:16, David Jackson skrev:
I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless I
copy them by hand.
I take it you are new to FreeBSD. May I introduce you to script
man script(1)
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote:
2012-02-01 19:16, David Jackson skrev:
I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless
I
copy them by hand.
I take it you are new to FreeBSD. May I introduce you to script
man script(1)
At 19:16 01/02/2012, David Jackson wrote:
They seem to have failed because they couldn't find the package on the
download site. Other errors I got were that the package it had downloaded
had an unrecognized format.
I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless I
At 11:42 31/01/2012, you wrote:
While your offer is made with the best of intentions, I doubt the
project would feel able take you up on it. The problem is simply one of
security -- while crowd-sourcing package compilation would be a pretty
sweet technical solution to much of the scaling and
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com wrote:
At 11:42 31/01/2012, you wrote:
While your offer is made with the best of intentions, I doubt the
project would feel able take you up on it. The problem is simply one of
security -- while crowd-sourcing package
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote:
2012-01-31 01:13,
freebsd-lists-erik@**erikosterholm.orgfreebsd-lists-e...@erikosterholm.orgskrev:
Oh come on, guys. David is the same person who said that FreeBSD was
poorly documented.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote:
2012-01-30 18:52, David Jackson skrev:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP -a
*portmaster -PP -a
*pkg_update
All
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:52:19AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:40:50 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon wrote:
Other things to keep in mind are language settings. One example is
OpenOffice which needs to have the language setting
At 00:45 31/01/2012, RW wrote:
Making it work like Ubuntu would need a lot more hardware and a lot
more work from port maintainers to support branching the ports tree. At
the moment there aren't really enough to maintain one tree.
Making a resume/summary of the thread; more hardware, time and
On 31/01/2012 09:56, Eduardo Morras wrote:
Making a resume/summary of the thread; more hardware, time and people
are needed to maintain a package system up-to-date. I have a free server
(amd64 freebsd8.2p6), if i built all packages with their standard
options, that's without make config, Can i
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP -a
*portmaster -PP -a
*pkg_update
All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an unuseable
state.
Why can't FreeBSD just make the package system just
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP -a
*portmaster -PP -a
*pkg_update
All fail miserably and totally and have left
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP -a
You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system.
I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it
should remain compatible with the ports system. I am willing to be
convinced.
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to compile
anything, it tends to take far too long to compile programs and would
rather install some packages and have it all work right away.
That's often true, especially
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to compile
anything, it tends to take far too long to compile programs and would
rather install some
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:07 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on
Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried:
*portupgrade -PP -a
*portmaster -PP -a
*pkg_update
All fail miserably and totally and have left the system in an
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:02:44 +0100
Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote:
To put it bluntly
It's the users fault
from my own experience
Apple: just fsck off
Mcrsft and Oracle and whom they have swallowed so far: just
On 30/01/2012 22:04, David Jackson wrote:
Binary packages are a big time saver and are more efficient.
Yes, definitely -- this is true for many use cases. Not all by any
means, but enough that binary packages are a must-have.
It should be easy for FreeBSD to make it easy to install the most
On 2012.01.30 18:40, David Jackson wrote:
Perhaps that is because the people who want to use packages have given up
on FreeBSD.
WTF?!? hint: I'm standing right beside you as you're saying this.
Steve
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:49:46PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
Binary
packages are a big time saver and are more efficient.
More efficient? Depends. In regards of installation, they're
often faster. In regards of spped during operation... well,
depends. :-)
The binary packages are
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:28:28PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system.
I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it
should remain compatible with the ports system. I am willing to be
convinced.
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:40:50 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to compile
anything, it tends to take far
On 1/30/2012 6:13 PM, freebsd-lists-e...@erikosterholm.org wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:28:28PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system.
I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it
should remain
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