Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: snip --- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want. Since you are new, I will give you some (ports) advice: 1. Always

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
saravanan ganapathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am also looking for package management. I know that a package can be installed using 'pkg_add -r sendmail'. But how to keep update these packages like ports? Use portupgrade for that too; it knows how to deal with ports or packages. I need to

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 24 January 2005 05:11 am, saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: snip --- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want.

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 05:11 am, saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: snip --- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 24 January 2005 09:52 pm, saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 January 2005 05:11 am, saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: snip --- Erik

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-22 Thread Tabor Kelly
saravanan ganapathy wrote: snip --- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want. Since you are new, I will give you some (ports) advice: 1. Always update all of your ports so that you can use portupgrade. 2. Use

port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread saravanan ganapathy
Hai I am using 5.3release and when I try to update ports collections, I am getting the following error Release not specified for collection host=cvsup1.freebsd.org How to solve this? Sarav __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai I am using 5.3release and when I try to update ports collections, I am getting the following error Release not specified for collection host=cvsup1.freebsd.org How to solve this? This could be an invalid tag, but please submit your supfile. Normally you can take

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai I am using 5.3release and when I try to update ports collections, I am getting the following error Release not specified for collection host=cvsup1.freebsd.org How to solve this? This could be an

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Yah. I had a mistake and corrected. It takes longtime to update the ports. I am not sure abt my config. Should I change anything else? How long it takes depends on the number of changes, first time will probably take a longer. You can speed up in two ways: instead of

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: Yah. I had a mistake and corrected. It takes longtime to update the ports. I am not sure abt my config. Should I change anything else? How long it takes depends on the number of changes, first time will

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want. I am trying to use freebsd for web hosting servers.Can you list the ports which are not useful for servers? This is a tough question, if you now have a fully updated ports tree

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
saravanan ganapathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want. Then try keeping them all. After the first time, it doesn't take that long to update the collection of makefiles. Note that the ports system does not