On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:05:16 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
The fact is, I have had problems with portupgrade as well, in fact,
portupgrade would give errors as well with not being able to download
packages, the entire upgrade process at that point would fail. That is the
reason I am trying
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many
users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do
not prefer to build it all. it shouldnt be such a hassle
If you want to use packages I would suggest
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many
users do prefer to use packages due to speed and convenience and do
not prefer to build it all.
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:56:45 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:14:24 -0500
David Jackson wrote:
I do think packages need to be better supported on FreeBSD, many
users do prefer to use packages
Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system, someone
recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It
gets to downloaded packages. But, after 10 packages, it prints a message
Protocol error and then Package x cannot be fetched, where x is the
name of
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes:
Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system, someone
recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It
gets to downloaded packages. But, after 10 packages, it prints a message
Protocol error and then
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote:
David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com writes:
Since I wish to use packages instead of ports to update my system,
someone
recommended I use pkg_upgrade. However, basically, it does not work. It
gets to downloaded packages.