From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 08:48:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473C716A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from theatre.msu.edu (theatre.msu.edu [35.8.69.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A5F43D54 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:48:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sagejona@theatre.msu.edu) Received: from theatre.msu.edu (pcp02889326pcs.epoint01.mi.comcast.net [68.43.220.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by theatre.msu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBSGmjwc005985 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:48:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sagejona@theatre.msu.edu) Message-ID: <3FEF0967.9070805@theatre.msu.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:48:39 -0500 From: "Jonathan T. Sage" Organization: MSU Theatre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The MiP RvL References: <1072629596.bd6b3280the_mip_rvl@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <1072629596.bd6b3280the_mip_rvl@myrealbox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime X-Phone: +1-517-974-1428 X-IM: AIM=spartymobile, ICQ=9587621, YIM=wisesage98, MSN=sagejona@msu.edu X-HomePage: http://theatre.msu.edu X-PGPFingerprint: 182C CF3F 93A9 1DAA 2EBE D4D5 A159 96D9 452E A7F1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig47D1E4C73B35369AA490A120" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updates + acpi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:48:51 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig47D1E4C73B35369AA490A120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The MiP RvL wrote: > Hello > > I want to start using FreeBSD after using debian unstable for a year :) > > So I installed FreeBSD 5.1 about 2 months ago. > I installed gaim and figured out that this version of gaim didn't support msn. So I wanted to upgrade my ports tree, but because my laptop is 300 mhz, I do not want to recompile my whole ports tree. I looked at freebsd-update but couldn't figure out how it worked. I also looked at PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT, but that only grabs the latest packages instead of updating the whole ports system. (I'm missing the apt-get update/upgrade tools:) Could somebody show me how to update the ports. Roland - if you're just looking for the latest version of gaim, chances are that 'pkg_add -r gaim' will do what you want. That should add the latest package from the master packages repository. Otherwise, check out the section of the handbook dealing with updating the ports tree with cvsup, and manually install gaim again. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html) as far as you're acpi problem, there are a number of documented problems with 5.1, many will be fixed with 5.2, but i have not been following those discussions close enough to know if your machine is effected by the known issues or something new. ~j -- Jonathan T. Sage Lighting & Scenic Design Professional Web Design [HTTP://www.theatre.msu.edu] [sagejona@msu.edu] [PGP: 182C CF3F 93A9 1DAA 2EBE D4D5 A159 96D9 452E A7F1] --------------enig47D1E4C73B35369AA490A120 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/7wlsoVmW2UUup/ERAs2JAJoDLK/vlwbjv21eVXfU3HDsgQmUbQCfayoE fEolY4nryH/IeVeqbVz4BB4= =I7RE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig47D1E4C73B35369AA490A120--