From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 2 20:59:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04111 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mfisher.harborcom.net (root@mfisher.harborcom.net [206.158.4.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA04106 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mfisher@harborcom.net) Received: from mfisher by mfisher.harborcom.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0y9jnU-0000Cb-00; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:59:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:59:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher To: Sue Bauer-Lee cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bulding new versions In-Reply-To: <199803030443.XAA22387@eeyore.taz.tac.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote: > 'cp -vp' and 'ln -svf' to name a couple. End result, rather than fight all > the changes, was to mount CD and run 'sysinstall'. Easy enough to do if > you are physically at the machine and/or what's on the CD is a current > version. Why is that necessary? Just grab the package (assuming that there is a fairly current one available) from the packages directories on a friendly FreeBSD mirror site and do a pkg_add. -- Mike "I swear - by my life and by my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." --Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message