Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-05 Thread rotten rottie
or having to make the apps manually. I am sorry if I stepped on any toes .. I dont mean to stir up any trouble .. Just an outside observer trying to get started with freebsd. From: Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rotten rottie [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions about

Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-05 Thread C. Ulrich
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:52, rotten rottie wrote: I know this is probably a touchy subject but.. ... the ports tree isn't versioned, it's the equivalent of current Wouldnt it be logical to have current/stable versions of the ports tree ? Then when you install a base system from cd it

Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-04 Thread rotten rottie
to update it... In other word how would I go about upgrading /usr/src/secure/usr.sbin/sshd or named or nfs or anything that is installed in the base install without rebooting ? From: Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rotten rottie [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions

Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
rotten rottie wrote: I am a linux user that wants to switch to freebsd... I am a bit confused about applying updates etc.. I installed a box for trial it was 5.1, I wanted to see if I could use ports to update openssh for a test examp. After the port installed I noticed that another version of

Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-03 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 17:39, rotten rottie [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: 1) if there are two trees(lack of better words) why would ssh exist in both the system tree and the ports tree ? Wouldnt it be better to have it in the ports tree ? Ports are not installed by

RE: Questions about updating...

2003-12-03 Thread Riley J. McIntire
From: rotten rottie I installed a box for trial it was 5.1, I wanted to see if I could use ports to update openssh for a test examp. After the port installed I noticed that another version of openssh was installed on the system. I Bad test example. As with named, sendmail and a few others

Re: Questions about updating...

2003-12-03 Thread Scott W
rotten rottie wrote: I am a linux user that wants to switch to freebsd... I am a bit confused about applying updates etc.. I installed a box for trial it was 5.1, I wanted to see if I could use ports to update openssh for a test examp. After the port installed I noticed that another version of