Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:20:49 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: "Darryl L. Miles" <darryl@netbauds.net> Subject: Re: pkg_add for 5.2.1 no longer working... Message-ID: <421AEB61.60209@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502220022510.15711-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502220022510.15711-100000@pancho>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7113251C55156B0C153CDB7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Linimon wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Darryl L. Miles wrote: > > >>My situation is that my ISP pre-installed quite a number of boxes with >>5.2.1 on my behalf, thinking they would have better knowledge of FreeBSD >>to do the right thing for me. > > > Unfortunately I think it is the case that for someone without an > in-depth knowledge of the FreeBSD development process, they should > have installed 4.10 or 4.11 for you. > > >>If it comes down to having to reinstall all the boxes (at my cost) >>unfortunately FreeBSD won't be the first choice to put back on them, >>since the application doesn't care and my experience if far greater >>other flavours of unix. > > > One of your options is to try the 'binary upgrade' which one of our > volunteers maintains (URL, anyone?) But this may be a more advanced > topic than someone not as familiar with FreeBSD could tackle. Website is http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/. FreeBSD Update is part of Colin Percival (great) work, it lives under security/freebsd-update. -- flz --------------enig7113251C55156B0C153CDB7C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCGutmMxEkbVFH3PQRAuYgAJ4rTvuNMAY9WG74dEEumILFKuPulgCcDIG1 VCxWzteztaOrrq+d6cGC8ug= =FOy5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7113251C55156B0C153CDB7C--
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