On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:26:11 -0400, Xn Nooby wrote:
> > Also try to go with portsnap for ports IMHO it's the path of least
> > resistance ;-)
>
> I will try portsnap, and read about the pkgdb database. If all these
> tools ultimately resolve to pkgdb, I will try to learn about that.
I think pkg
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Xn Nooby wrote:
> I have tried PC-BSD, and look forward to version 9.0. I really don't
> like KDE, though. I hear some rumblings about a Gnome developer
> wanting to drop BSD support, so maybe I better start liking KDE.
> PC-BSD seems to have done a great job r
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Xn Nooby wrote:
I think the extract is only done during the install, and then after
> that it would be "portsnap fetch update" ? Or is it better to do an
> extract each time?
>
I've always been told to do portsnap fetch extract, but I went a step
farther with m
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Xn Nooby wrote:
>> Also try to go with portsnap for ports IMHO it's the path of least
>> resistance ;-)
>
> I will try portsnap, and read about the pkgdb database. If all these
> tools ultimately resolve to pkgdb, I will try to learn about that.
>
> I have tried
> Also try to go with portsnap for ports IMHO it's the path of least
> resistance ;-)
I will try portsnap, and read about the pkgdb database. If all these
tools ultimately resolve to pkgdb, I will try to learn about that.
I have tried PC-BSD, and look forward to version 9.0. I really don't
like
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Xn Nooby wrote:
>> It is hard for me to tell what tools I should be using to work with
[..]
> and vice-versa. cvsup and all that is mostly used nowadays by mere
> mortals for building the world and upgrad
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Xn Nooby wrote:
> It is hard for me to tell what tools I should be using to work with
> ports and packages. I was trying to set up a 64bit 8.2 machine as a
> desktop environment, with Firefox 4 and Flash installed. It looked
> like I was going to need to track th
It is hard for me to tell what tools I should be using to work with
ports and packages. I was trying to set up a 64bit 8.2 machine as a
desktop environment, with Firefox 4 and Flash installed. It looked
like I was going to need to track the 8.x stable branch in order to
get a Firefox package, and
