Re: Quickie question

2009-10-16 Thread Tony Theodore
2009/10/17 Allen : > On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:17:21 am Tony Theodore wrote: > >> I think portupgrade -a will have updated all packages to the latest >> versions, and pkg_add -r won't be able to find a newer one to install. >> Try adding a package that you don't already have installed and see

Quickie Question

2009-10-16 Thread Allen
>It seems your ports tree can be broken somehow. Maybe after a >portsnap fetch extract update >you can try again and see what happens? Actually that was my first thought so I'm glad I seem to be starting in the right spot. When I realized it wasn't working, I did this: portsnap fetch extract upd

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-16 Thread Allen
On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:17:21 am Tony Theodore wrote: > I think portupgrade -a will have updated all packages to the latest > versions, and pkg_add -r won't be able to find a newer one to install. > Try adding a package that you don't already have installed and see > what happens. Hey, tha

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Moura
What does portversion -l \< or pkg_version -l \< says? Alex On 17/10/2009, at 02:17, Tony Theodore wrote: So anyway, after running it with -a, what should I have done? Why would a few things stop working ? Did I do something terribly stupid? The network connection is fine, I checked tha

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-16 Thread Tony Theodore
> > So anyway, after running it with -a, what should I have done? Why would a few > things stop working ? Did I do something terribly stupid? The network > connection is fine, I checked that, it's just that I can't use pkg_add -r > anymore. I think portupgrade -a will have updated all packages to

Quickie question

2009-10-16 Thread Allen
Hey all, I know this SHOULD go to FreeBSD-Questions, but I'm trying to fix up a machine right now, so I don't have normal access to my mail account, and this is the only one I can send to without spending a half hour redoing something, so please allow this once to ask here: On my test machine,

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Josef Grosch wrote: > How do you build a bike shed ? > > Or what colour do you paint one :) (build was original but colour more freebsd related) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law_of_Triviality > > Vincent Hoffman wrote: >> Q. what colour should we paint.. >> A. Green >> A. Purple >> A.

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread Josef Grosch
How do you build a bike shed ? Vincent Hoffman wrote: Q. what colour should we paint.. A. Green A. Purple A. Orange A. Pink A. White etc etc ;) james michael wrote: top posting is fine... Q. Who sets the standard for email lists? A. NO ONE Martin Tournoij wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 0

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Q. what colour should we paint.. A. Green A. Purple A. Orange A. Pink A. White etc etc ;) james michael wrote: > top posting is fine... > > Q. Who sets the standard for email lists? > A. NO ONE > > Martin Tournoij wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:08:49AM -0700, james michael wrote: >> >>> Q

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread james michael
top posting is fine... Q. Who sets the standard for email lists? A. NO ONE Martin Tournoij wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:08:49AM -0700, james michael wrote: Q. Whereis doesn't... A. portsnap fetch extract Q. Flash doesn't... A. exactly, it doesn't and it won't. Warren Block wrote:

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:08:49AM -0700, james michael wrote: > Q. Whereis doesn't... > A. portsnap fetch extract > > Q. Flash doesn't... > A. exactly, it doesn't and it won't. > > > Warren Block wrote: > > Interrupted Unix FAQ 1.0, 2009-01-31 > > Warren Block > > > > Q. Sendmail doesn't... >

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread james michael
Q. Whereis doesn't... A. portsnap fetch extract Q. Flash doesn't... A. exactly, it doesn't and it won't. Warren Block wrote: Interrupted Unix FAQ 1.0, 2009-01-31 Warren Block Q. Sendmail doesn't... A. Fix DNS. Q. Why don't my cron jobs... A. Use full paths. Q. tcsh doesn't... A. rehash Q.

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread jhell
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:05, jayton.garnett@ wrote: Q. I'm confused... A. Keep taking those pills. HaAhahaHa Silence ha... "Your good!" -- ;; dataix.net!jhell 2048R/89D8547E 2009-09-30 ;; BSD since FreeBSD 4.2Linux since Slackware 2.1 ;; 85EF E26B 07BB 3777 76BE B12A

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread Jayton Garnett
Q. I'm confused... A. Keep taking those pills. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"