Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] > > Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made > the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was > good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a > badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. >

Re: Installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread b. f.
>from same script. Let me know, please, if it's ok? Well, not quite. >== >#!/bin/sh ># ># Update source, docs and ports > >LOCAL_DIR="$(pwd)" You don't need to change directories if you change some of the commands slightly, so the above line and the last line are unnecessary. > >cd /usr/s

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, PJ wrote: > Lane Holcombe wrote: > > I'm all over this! > > > > Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: > > > > portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror > > > > You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will > > ha

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
Lane Holcombe wrote: > I'm all over this! > > Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: > > portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror > > You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will > have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for t

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread PJ
Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJ wrote: > >> Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is >> to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? >> I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, >> cups, samba, php,

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: > Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is > to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? > I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, > cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time > to ti

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:29:26AM +, b. f. typed: > Lane Holcombe wrote: > > >Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: > > > >portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror > > > >You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will > >have a semi-authorit

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread b. f.
Lane Holcombe wrote: >Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: > >portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror > >You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will >have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the >whole dang FreeBSD de

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread b. f.
>Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is >to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? This is supposed to be automated, but of course things can sometimes go wrong, either through hardware problems, user-error, or an error in Ports. >I usually have

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread Lane Holcombe
I'm all over this! Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the whole dang FreeBSD development

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJ wrote: > Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is > to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? > I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, > cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say u

installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread PJ
Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up s