Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600 Scott Eberl <rayzrs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading > all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after > upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. > It takes forever and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer > is to. Early today I installed irssi which I had to do with make > clean install because just doing pkg_add -r irssi complains about not > being able to find the url of it. > there was a security problem some time back. It seems that this is the reason why no packages are available for 9.1 at the moment. > Should I just reinstall 9.0 and not upgrade, will ports work > correctly then? You mean packages? Ports work correctly. If you really need packages, go back to 8.3 as you will then still enjoy security fixes and current packages. Erich _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
