Hi all,
I am getting the impression that I am using the ports and packages system the
wrong way, but can't find a good tutorial on how to use them to their best. I
would be quite happy to write one up, but I need to understand it first!
My problem is that my ports tree is always a couple of
On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:41 am, Richard Bradley wrote:
Hi all,
I am getting the impression that I am using the ports and packages system
the wrong way, but can't find a good tutorial on how to use them to their
best. I would be quite happy to write one up, but I need to understand it
On Thursday 22 April 2004 2:29 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:41 am, Richard Bradley wrote:
[...]
My problem is that my ports tree is always a couple of minor versions
ahead of the available packages.
[...]
This means I have a load of libraries that are different
On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:57 am, Richard Bradley wrote:
On Thursday 22 April 2004 2:29 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:41 am, Richard Bradley wrote:
[...]
My problem is that my ports tree is always a couple of minor versions
ahead of the available packages.
On Thursday 22 April 2004 3:25 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:57 am, Richard Bradley wrote:
...
I want to keep my programs up to date, and I want to use precompiled
versions as much as possible because it can take hours to compile a large
program.
...
If I use
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:57:53PM +0100, Richard Bradley wrote:
Perhaps I am confused about the terminology here - by packages I mean
precompiled programs, and by ports I mean source code make files for the
same programs.
Yes -- that's the correct terminology. But there's no real
On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:50 am, Richard Bradley wrote:
On Thursday 22 April 2004 3:25 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:57 am, Richard Bradley wrote:
...
I want to keep my programs up to date, and I want to use precompiled
versions as much as possible because
On Thursday 22 April 2004 08:01 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:57:53PM +0100, Richard Bradley wrote:
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Absolutely. Now, where are you getting the pre-compiled packages
from? If it's from one of the 4-Disk FreeBSD CD Rom sets, then yes,
you're going to have problems
