Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:45:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1010710064336.26245C-100000@euphoria.confusion.net> In-Reply-To: <20010710125613.A51035@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rasputin wrote: > I may be low on caffeine, but I don't see how breaking up the base system > into packages makes it any easier to upgrade than using cvsup? I think the discussion is Re: binary upgrades, like putting in the CD and hitting that upgrade option, which right now doesn't quite get you there afaik. > > Id have thought it would require more work to upgrade under some system > similar to the ports tree (at least that's my experience) > > But like I said, I've probably misread this post. > > I thought the OP was referring to X in particular, and since that's > upgraded via ports anyway, it does seem a good candidate to be > installed by pkg_add (it's quite confusing for newbies to > "pkg_info | grep XFree " and have it return nothing, especially when > you're sat in Enlightenment...) L: http://www.isp.northwestern.edu/~laurence To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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