Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:54:25 +0100 From: "Ramiro Aceves" <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> To: "Henry Miller" <hmiller@intradyn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions-en <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Questions about ports Message-ID: <007b01c518ff$2a99d960$15cf589d@eis.uva.es> References: <4219D0E9.4060907@wanadoo.es> <421B2E6E.5040001@wanadoo.es> <200502220923000401.466885C1@mail.intradyn.com>
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> > I must have missed the first message. Easy to do when there are > several hundred per day. ok, yes, this mailing list is high traffic and that also happens to me. :-) > > I would cvsup the latest ports collection. (There is no 5-stable ports > collection, the same set of ports works for all supported releases, > which is generally 4.11, 5.3, and -current, though that will change as > we release. In most cases ports will work with older versions too) > > then install either portupgrade or portmanager > (/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade or /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager) > > I'm not sure which is better. I use portupgrade myself, but > portmanager is more likely to be able to solve this problem. > Whichever you choose, let it run for a few days (check often though, > sometimes it sit waiting for you to set some options!). That should > get everything up to date. At least portmanager as the ability to use > packages if you prefer. > > While your machine is slow, I compile everything on a ppro-200, so it > isn't impossible to compile on your machine. Ok, thank you very much. As you say, perhaps I will compile everything, as I do not need too many packages for this machine. This computer will be mainly used for browsing the Internet and reading emails, so, I think I can spend some hours to compile firefox or thunderbird. I will take a look to portmanager and portupgrade and see what I can do also. Thank you very much. Ramiro. > > > >
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