Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to makestuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Matt Emmerton wrote: How is 4.9 ancient? It's the most recent release supported for production use. (Refer to http://www.freebsd.org if you doubt this.) That was a joke ;-) You can find all the packages you want for 4.9 at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to makestuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Matt Emmerton
> On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > You're not doing it right, then :-) > > > > Use portupgrade with the -PP switch to force the use of packages. > > > > What if there isn't a package for a given port? I wasn't aware > there were packages (though I suppose for an ancient release