From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 16:54:29 2005 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 9059616A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:54:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asmtp03.eresmas.com (asmtp03.eresmas.com [62.81.235.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344DD43D48 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:54:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ea1abz@wanadoo.es) Received: from [192.168.108.57] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp03.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D3dIo-0006W6-RN; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:54:26 +0100 Received: from [157.88.207.21] (helo=si21) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1D3dIn-000689-Lb; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:54:26 +0100 Message-ID: <007b01c518ff$2a99d960$15cf589d@eis.uva.es> From: "Ramiro Aceves" To: "Henry Miller" References: <4219D0E9.4060907@wanadoo.es> <421B2E6E.5040001@wanadoo.es> <200502220923000401.466885C1@mail.intradyn.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:54:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) cc: freebsd-questions-en Subject: Re: Questions about ports 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: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:54:29 -0000 > > 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. > > > >