Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 21:35:34 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: where have all the ports & sysinstall packages gone ?? Message-ID: <2c1601c06754$52f3d840$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <200012141526.KAA81405@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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> Perhaps the packages you are looking for are not on the first > package CD. Did you check for the packages on the second package > CD? I've only ever downloaded the single CD ISO image .... well thats not totally correct because I did start with a 2 CD set back in 3.2 & a 4.2 one a few weeks ago, but it had so many bugs I kept trying to download the image .... first one got corrupted but second attempt was OK. > As long as you keep you ports collection to date you should have > no problems. > There are example cvsup files that come with the distribution. > You just need to install the cvsup binary and use one of the examples to keep > your ports up to date. If the official docs were more intelligible and / or I had more free time, I would probably have figured out CVS a while back. I notice a few "simple english" resource sites popping up lately with proper step_by_step explanations, so hopefully there's a few usable things about CVS there. > > > When you say "from source" are you refering to ports? Or directly from the > program's original sources? from original sources ..... a few things have worked fine that way (typically ones with a well commented makefile) but others (eg mgetty & cyrus) have extremely terse docs & consequently are way beyond my ability to comprehend. > Port installs should get uninstalled with pkg_delete and that has worked for me > most of the time. There were some changes to the ports which made old installs > not unistall cleanly, but if you install again and unistall it should all get cleared. OK ...... I'll try that suggestion next time I encounter an application that refuses to go :) > > >I tried a heap of times on several machines to get imap & apache to work from ports > >but kept getting weird error about something missing or error 1 (whatever that means)' > > If you are going to use ports you really need to cvsup to the latest port tree. What I need first & foremost is to find an explanation of how /what / CVS is on about, how to configure it (ie ALL the necessary steps & not just the chapter headings) !!!! Thankfully a few people are finally filling in the gaps. I keep adding to my Pedantic FreeBSD too & usually refer to something with almost every install I do. . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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