Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:39:38 -0900 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Packages vs Ports Message-ID: <200912230839.38291.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0912230913u1de13fe2n7a9cb93faa810f19@mail.gmail.com> References: <b9384ad40912230906j2926aeeak196325377cd00f19@mail.gmail.com> <6201873e0912230913u1de13fe2n7a9cb93faa810f19@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow <arthurbarlow@gmail.com>wrote: > > P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a > > 40G harddrive. > > pkg's are created at the time of release eg 7.2. They are never updated > for that release. Or set PACKAGESITE to: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/ See pkg_add(1) for details. This will usually work for legacy stable branches, but you may actually need to update your system to a more recent stable version once in a while. -- Mel
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