9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Scott Eberl
OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It takes forever and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer is to. Early today I

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of January 10, 2013 8:02:01 PM -0600, Scott Eberl is alleged to have said: OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600 Scott Eberl rayzrs...@gmail.com wrote: OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600, Scott Eberl wrote: OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It takes forever and asks me

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:27:50 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600, Scott Eberl wrote: OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after upgrading to 9.1 I have to

Re: 9.0 vs 9.1

2013-01-10 Thread Devin Teske
If you add $PACKAGESITE to your environment you can fetch just fine with pkg_add -r Example… env PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/ pkg_add -r irssi -- Devin On Jan 10, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Scott Eberl wrote: OK can someone please explain this