On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 21:57:48 +
Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand. Are "latest" and "quarterly" ports trees?
>
The default packages for releases are built from a series of branches
of the main ports tree that are made split-off every three months, and
then just get securi
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017, at 07:54 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I think you need to understand the relationship between packages and
> ports. First and foremost, they are the same thing. When you build a
> port you are actually creating a package by processing the source
> files. This usually, but not a
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 08:26:33PM +, RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:35:26 +
> Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
>
> > Hi. I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I'm getting a system up & running
> > slowly, working around my chronic fatigue. Today I'm updating for the
> > first time. Ba
On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:35:26 +
Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> Hi. I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I'm getting a system up & running
> slowly, working around my chronic fatigue. Today I'm updating for the
> first time. Base system and pkg update appeared to go well. I haven't
> rebooted, wanting to get
> On 19 Mar, 2017, at 13:54, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
> Then I run 'pkg upgrade' regularly. This will update any ports that have
> been modified since you installed your system.
Everything that Kevin said is right on the money, but I wanted to highlight
this in particular.
If you've installed fr
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
wrote:
> Hi. I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I'm getting a system up & running slowly,
> working around my chronic fatigue. Today I'm updating for the first time.
> Base system and pkg update appeared to go well. I haven't rebooted, wanting
> to get
Hi. I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I'm getting a system up & running slowly, working
around my chronic fatigue. Today I'm updating for the first time. Base system
and pkg update appeared to go well. I haven't rebooted, wanting to get
everything done before reboot.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handboo
I looked with pkg_libchk and portmaster --check-depends, but forgot pkg
check -d. Pkg check -d states some ports/packages missing liblzma.so.1
after I removed
lzmalib. I had to recompile this ports. This fixed this issue.
Corrected in the PR.
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