Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:01:25 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: where have all the ports & sysinstall packages gone ?? Message-ID: <000e01c0658a$ee1f3a10$837e03cb@dougy>
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I've been installing 4.2 on a number of systems & have been experiencing considerable difficulty locating either ports or sysinstall packages for a number of applications. It appears that none of the ftp sites carry anything like the range of applications that were available for previous versions. eg where can I get a port or a package for apache 1.3.14 ?? I realize that a number of applications were broken or couldn't be successfully installed without being compiled (mgetty comes to mind) but the vast majority of things I use have always worked fine from sysinstall (cucipop / sudo / links / lynx / pine / apache / etc) I've tried compiling several applications from from source, but since I'm not extremely experienced in wading through the somewhat terse makefiles I haven't been able to get many things working properly this way. Applications compiled from source (whether working or otherwise) appear near impossible to uninstall without considerably more understanding than I possess, (I've yet to see one where "make deinstall" works) whereas with applications installed via sysinstall its simply a matter of "unchecking" a box. Anyway, having had my rant, would someone please arrange to have the packages & ports stuff fixed sometime so that the lesser experienced of us can get all the things we need working ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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