On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:59:08AM -0400, David Karapetyan wrote:
Hello everyone. I am a former user of Freebsd-7.2 Release who migrated to
Debian. I was unable to find an ftp server that had a decent enough list of
precompiled packages (including the default at ftp.freebsd.org; for
example, when installing gnome2 via precompiled packages, the package
manager was unable to find a number of dependencies available in package
form. True, I can compile them from source, but this is rather time
consuming. Does anyone know of an ftp server dedicated to maintaining a
comprehensive list of precompiled packages (a la Debian Testing)? In all
other regards, I favor freebsd over Debian or any other linux distribution,
and would like to return to using it.
There are a number of ports that for legal reasons cannot be redistributed
as pre-compiled packages. Quite possibly you ran into one or more of those.
Other than those ftp.freebsd.org (and mirrors) should have a complete set of
pre-compiled packages.
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1...@student.uu.se
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