Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-04 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, April 4, 2006 6:03 pm, walt wrote: > Perhaps wiki.dragonflybsd.org would be a good place to put > helpful information for linux users who want to learn about > DragonFly. If I get any (basic!) linux-->BSD questions > I could start a new section there. Don't wait for someone else to ask!

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-04 Thread walt
MARCINISZYN Laurent wrote: > I agree with Walt about the off-list questions and the restitution to > the list if that can help others DragonFly newbies. Perhaps wiki.dragonflybsd.org would be a good place to put helpful information for linux users who want to learn about DragonFly. If I get any

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-04 Thread MARCINISZYN Laurent
walt a écrit : Thomas Schlesinger wrote: Simon, I'm coming from Gentoo, so I'm a rookie on *BSD and pkgsrc. First, I must get familiar with the new stuff ;-) Welcome, Thomas! I'm a fan of Gentoo and DragonFly also, and I may be able to answer some newbie-type questions for you. The Dragon

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-03 Thread walt
Thomas Schlesinger wrote: > Simon, > > I'm coming from Gentoo, so I'm a rookie on *BSD and pkgsrc. First, I must get > familiar with the new stuff ;-) Welcome, Thomas! I'm a fan of Gentoo and DragonFly also, and I may be able to answer some newbie-type questions for you. The DragonFlyMeisters

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-03 Thread Thomas Schlesinger
Am Montag, 3. April 2006 00:16 schrieb Simon 'corecode' Schubert: > On 02.04.2006, at 22:37, Thomas Schlesinger wrote: > > it would be very nice, if the documentation would be upgraded before > > the next > > one tapping into this trap ;-) > > I think that's barely possible. I could imagine people

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-02 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, April 2, 2006 6:16 pm, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > On 02.04.2006, at 22:37, Thomas Schlesinger wrote: >> it would be very nice, if the documentation would be upgraded before >> the next >> one tapping into this trap ;-) > > I think that's barely possible. I could imagine people hitt

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-02 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
On 02.04.2006, at 22:37, Thomas Schlesinger wrote: it would be very nice, if the documentation would be upgraded before the next one tapping into this trap ;-) I think that's barely possible. I could imagine people hitting this issue almost every time, and writing up new stuff in such a smal

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-02 Thread Thomas Schlesinger
Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 19:29 schrieb Justin C. Sherrill: > I've installed DragonFlyBSD successfully, but I'm not able to install > software > with pkg_add. I've tried out to build the lsof-packages, following the > Handbook > (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/packages-using.html).

Re: Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-02 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, April 2, 2006 11:54 am, Thomas Schlesinger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a Gentoo Linux user and want to try out DragonFlyBSD, so I'm a *BSD > rookie. > > I've installed DragonFlyBSD successfully, but I'm not able to install > software > with pkg_add. I've tried out to build the lsof-packages, follo

Newbie-question: Ports and Packages

2006-04-02 Thread Thomas Schlesinger
Hi, I'm a Gentoo Linux user and want to try out DragonFlyBSD, so I'm a *BSD rookie. I've installed DragonFlyBSD successfully, but I'm not able to install software with pkg_add. I've tried out to build the lsof-packages, following the Handbook (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/pack