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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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