Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:59:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@harborcom.net> To: Sue Bauer-Lee <sblee@eeyore.taz.tac.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bulding new versions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302235655.392D-100000@mfisher.harborcom.net> In-Reply-To: <199803030443.XAA22387@eeyore.taz.tac.com>
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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_
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