From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 15:21:56 2002 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 1D7D837B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A08D443E54 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: (qmail 34623 invoked by uid 1111); 8 Jul 2002 22:21:53 -0000 Date: 8 Jul 2002 15:21:53 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:21:53 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Freshports.org Message-ID: <20020708222153.GB28864@toxic.magnesium.net> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 at 08:18:55 +1000, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone used freshports.org to update your FreeBSD box. I want to > use the official release of Gnome2.0 with FreeBSD, but the only > official ports for it (under freebsd.org) are the pre-release version. > Also how often do the ports packages get updated. Gnome and KDE have > been sitting at the same rev for weeks. Thanks in advance. Freshports actually has nothing to do with updating your FreeBSD box. It just tracks changes made to the ports tree. The reason you aren't seeing the latest ports on your system is because your ports tree is out of date. Update it using cvsup. See the handbook for more info. - jim -- jim mock jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message