On Tuesday 29 March 2005 04:27, well sun wrote: > thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile under > /usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade. > > I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and "make > install". > > That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the > "make install" or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current directory. > Is it correct? > Could I make the default directory from 5.3-release to 6.0-current by > change one configuration file? If I want to override the default > fetching site of "pkg_add" command by some faster sites, how can I do?
by and large, speed should not be the prime reason for choosing a package server. The default FreeBSD package collection often lags the ports collection considerably. Many packages are only updated during FreeBSD releases, some not even then. For KDE you are better-off using the "fruit-salad" servers, you will find a link here: http://freebsd.kde.org/instructions.php#kde-from-packages However, if you have a reasonably up-to-date machine I'd stick to ports; and use portupgrade or portmanager to maintain them. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
