Re: Quickie question

2009-10-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Allen gedankezaube...@comcast.net wrote: On Saturday 17 October 2009 02:52:56 am Tony Theodore wrote: OK, so if you have a look at the contents of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/, it seems 7.1 packages are no longer being built. Not sure there's much you can do apart from

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-17 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, thanks

Quickie Question

2009-10-17 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

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-17 Thread Tony Theodore
2009/10/17 Allen gedankezaube...@comcast.net: 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

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-17 Thread Allen
On Saturday 17 October 2009 02:52:56 am Tony Theodore wrote: *Snipped for politeness* OK, so if you have a look at the contents of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/, it seems 7.1 packages are no longer being built. Not sure there's much you can do apart from using ports or

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: After upgrading, download the ports tree: # portsnap fetch install sorry, that should be fetch extract. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Quickie question

2009-10-17 Thread Allen
On Saturday 17 October 2009 11:33:51 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Allen gedankezaube...@comcast.net writes: Thanks for letting me know about that. I didn't know. I heard the other day on here that 7.1 had a longer life cycle than 7.2 so I hadn't upgraded as I planned on waiting for 8.0,

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

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 the

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 to...@logyst.com 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