On Mon, 27 May 2013, Ed Flecko wrote:
Since I want to know the "correct" way (or one of I'm sure many correct
ways) of initially installing the OS and then getting it up to date (and
staying up to date), can you tell me what I did wrong and/or what I might
want to do differently?
A short overv
Read the relevant portions of the handbook
Chapter 5:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
Chapter 25:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html
Then also:
man portmaster
man freebsd-update
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:49 AM,
Thank you both!
Since I want to know the "correct" way (or one of I'm sure many correct
ways) of initially installing the OS and then getting it up to date (and
staying up to date), can you tell me what I did wrong and/or what I might
want to do differently?
Ed
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:16 AM,
On 27/05/2013 19:00, Ed Flecko wrote:
> Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.
>
> :-)
>
> I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date, but
> pkg_version seems to disagree.
>
> I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my
> install. After that, I use
On Mon, 27 May 2013 11:00:52 -0700
Ed Flecko wrote:
> Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.
>
> :-)
>
> I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date,
> but pkg_version seems to disagree.
>
> I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my
> install. Af
Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.
:-)
I thought I was using svn to keep my ports, src and docs up to date, but
pkg_version seems to disagree.
I'm running 9.1 and I've installed ports, src, and docs as part of my
install. After that, I use subversion to (I thought) make sure everything
was up t
