Hello all,
I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
Some ports, like "lsof" require the existence of /usr/src.
What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
with the production release.
When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Roger wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
> Some ports, like "lsof" require the existence of /usr/src.
> What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
> with the production release
Roger wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
> Some ports, like "lsof" require the existence of /usr/src.
> What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
> with the production release.
> When the installed was perfor
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Roger wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
> Some ports, like "lsof" require the existence of /usr/src.
> What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
> with the producti
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Frank Shute wrote:
> You mentioned lsof but there is a utility in base which you probably
> don't know about called fstat(1), which does a lot of what lsof does.
>
Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into it.
> IIRC, the sources for 7.2 should be on the
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Roger wrote:
>
> My second concerned is the ports. In the file "ports-supfile" there is
> one option, "*default release=cvs tag=.".
> I believe this specifies which cvs tag to use when pulling files from
> the ports. At one point I had "*default release=cvs
> tag=R
On Sat 2009-11-07 19:19:52 UTC-0800, Randi Harper (ra...@freebsd.org) wrote:
> Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of
> base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update.
> It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on
> that.
andrew clarke writes:
> > Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of
> > base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update.
> > It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on
> > that.
>
> > For your system, use freebsd-upda
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:57:54 -0600, Adam Vande More
wrote:
> There are three basic branches, CURRENT STABLE RELEASE
>
> You want release. You shouldn't run anything else unless you're willing and
> able to help with testing, debugging, and development.
That's a quite generic answer, but basical
