From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 3 16:01:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22564 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:01:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22508 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:00:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA12596; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:56:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:56:34 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Sue Bauer-Lee cc: Mike Fisher , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bulding new versions In-Reply-To: <199803030508.AAA22523@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 Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote: > > 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. > > uh, cuz I already had the source package and kinda figured that I should > have been able to compile and install it?? :) No; he means it's not necessary to start sysinstall. Throw in the CD, find the appropriate package file on the CD, and run pkg_add on the package. However, sysinstall looks nicer. Of course, a whole bunch of compiler messages when compiling from the source looks even nicer. :-) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message