Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:16:20 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: pecl-fileinfo-0.2 Message-ID: <200501100816.21276.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <2C368216-62E6-11D9-80AB-000A95CD9CC8@neverthere.org> References: <D9EF3FD1-62B0-11D9-8922-000A95CD9CC8@neverthere.org> <20050110042727.GA1286@xor.obsecurity.org> <2C368216-62E6-11D9-80AB-000A95CD9CC8@neverthere.org>
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On Monday 10 January 2005 03:01 am, Michael Rubin wrote: > I will not ask you another question after this email. But I am going >to ask you one more. :-) > I don't think this is a true statement. You're probably going to need/want to ask a lot of questions as you find out what it is you need to do. > > I did a uname -a and found out I was mistaken. I am running: > > -> uname -a > > FreeBSD firstgear.neverthere.org 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE > > #0: > > Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 > > > root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > On the FreeBSD website I don't see a 5.3-STABLE I only see a 5.3 > RELEASE. > > > If there is a RTFM I am not doing please feel free to reply with > RTFM, or point me to the place to get 5.3 STABLE. > Yes, there are. You want to look at the handbook, I would go here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Read chapter 8, 19 and Appendicies A5 and A6. Also, /usr/src/UPDATING and /usr/ports/UPDATING. > > > Thanks again for your time, > > Michael Rubin > > On Jan 9, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > You need to update to 5.3-STABLE. > > > > Kris > Hello Michael, Kris said you need to update to 5.3-STABLE. To do that there are some things you're going to need to learn about. In particular, cvsup, sup-files, and what to do then. To get cvsup installed, if you haven't done it yet, the easiest way would be: pkg_add -r cvsup Can you connect to the Internet using your FBSD box? I looked at the headers on your email and noticed Apple Mail. Are you using a dial-up connection or broadband? Don -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm I'm not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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