Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-08 Thread Alistair Hamilton
On Tuesday 08 Nov 2005 00:30, Stephen Hurd wrote: I installed from two CDs, and got a working KDE system. Now, I want to [snip] Heh, essentially the problem is this... before a release, the ports tree is stabalized... everything builds and works together, broken dependencies are fixed, all

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 07 November 2005 15:49, Alistair wrote: Hello, All I am a user of Linux for many years (and an aged BSD sysadmin from 1985-1989), but laterly mainly use Gentoo. FreeBSD seemed to be a good alternative, so I get the 6.0 release a few days after it was released. Being a Gentoo

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Søren Klintrup
Alistair wrote: Hello, All Hi, Maybe there is a level of sanity I am missing as a newcomer to BSD, but I would really like someone to tell me where to find it so that I can stop having to use this bloody Windows laptop to post here ;-) Have a look at the sysutils/portupgrade port - that

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:49:18 +0100, Alistair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, All I am a user of Linux for many years (and an aged BSD sysadmin from 1985-1989), but laterly mainly use Gentoo. FreeBSD seemed to be a good alternative, so I get the 6.0 release a few days after it was

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Stephen Hurd
I installed from two CDs, and got a working KDE system. Now, I want to do Firefox from ports with my own make.conf for P4 optimisation. Good! So, I sync with the sources using cvsup (just like emerge --sync) change to the Firefox ports directory, type make and enter dependency hell like has

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:54:37PM +, Alistair wrote: Hello, All I am a user of Linux for many years (and an aged BSD sysadmin from 1985-1989), but laterly mainly use Gentoo. FreeBSD seemed to be a good alternative, so I get the 6.0 release a few days after it was released. Being a

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Michael VInce
Alistair wrote: Hello, All I am a user of Linux for many years (and an aged BSD sysadmin from 1985-1989), but laterly mainly use Gentoo. FreeBSD seemed to be a good alternative, so I get the 6.0 release a few days after it was released. Being a Gentoo person, I like the ports system, but