On Sat 2009-11-07 19:19:52 UTC-0800, Randi Harper (ra...@freebsd.org) wrote:
Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of
base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update.
It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on
that.
andrew clarke writes:
Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of
base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update.
It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on
that.
For your system, use freebsd-update.
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:57:54 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com
wrote:
There are three basic branches, CURRENT STABLE RELEASE
You want release. You shouldn't run anything else unless you're willing and
able to help with testing, debugging, and development.
That's a quite generic
Hello all,
I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src.
What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
with the production release.
When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src.
What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
with the
Roger wrote:
Hello all,
I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src.
What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
with the production release.
When the installed was performed the
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Roger wrote:
Hello all,
I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution.
Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src.
What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized
with the production
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
You mentioned lsof but there is a utility in base which you probably
don't know about called fstat(1), which does a lot of what lsof does.
Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into it.
IIRC, the sources for 7.2
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote:
My second concerned is the ports. In the file ports-supfile there is
one option, *default release=cvs tag=..
I believe this specifies which cvs tag to use when pulling files from
the ports. At one point I had *default release=cvs
