Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Xn Nooby
Also try to go with portsnap for ports IMHO it's the path of least resistance ;-) I will try portsnap, and read about the pkgdb database. If all these tools ultimately resolve to pkgdb, I will try to learn about that. I have tried PC-BSD, and look forward to version 9.0. I really don't like

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: Also try to go with portsnap for ports IMHO it's the path of least resistance ;-) I will try portsnap, and read about the pkgdb database.  If all these tools ultimately resolve to pkgdb, I will try to learn about that. I

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I think the extract is only done during the install, and then after that it would be portsnap fetch update ? Or is it better to do an extract each time? I've always been told to do portsnap fetch extract, but I went a step

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried PC-BSD, and look forward to version 9.0. I really don't like KDE, though. I hear some rumblings about a Gnome developer wanting to drop BSD support, so maybe I better start liking KDE. PC-BSD seems to have done

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:26:11 -0400, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: Also try to go with portsnap for ports IMHO it's the path of least resistance ;-) I will try portsnap, and read about the pkgdb database. If all these tools ultimately resolve to pkgdb, I will try to learn about that. I

Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-19 Thread Xn Nooby
It is hard for me to tell what tools I should be using to work with ports and packages. I was trying to set up a 64bit 8.2 machine as a desktop environment, with Firefox 4 and Flash installed. It looked like I was going to need to track the 8.x stable branch in order to get a Firefox package,

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-19 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: It is hard for me to tell what tools I should be using to work with ports and packages.  I was trying to set up a 64bit 8.2 machine as a desktop environment, with Firefox 4 and Flash installed.  It looked like I was going to

Re: Over-whelmed by ports and package tools

2011-05-19 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: It is hard for me to tell what tools I should be using to work with [..] and vice-versa. cvsup and all that is mostly used nowadays by mere mortals for