From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 16:44:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6738837B41A for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp10-3.ath.forthnet.gr Bernie_X@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [213.16.157.3] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with Novell NIMS $Revision: 2.88 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:44:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:32:24 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Bernie To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Easy Questions -- newcomer Message-ID: X-X-Sender: Bernie_X@imap.myrealbox.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello, i'm new to freebsd and yesterday i tried for first time to do build world. i did cvsup, thought i was going for 4.4 but got 4.5 prerelease instead. Anyway, nothing wrong with that, i did all the process from the manual and got build world and a generic kernel. When i tried to compile my own kernel things didnt go so well. I tried compiling with different options etc a few times but compilation always stoped. Today i did cvsup again and buildworld but havent run mergemaster yet and haven't configured custom kernel. i'd like to think that things will work today... Anyway, can anyone answer the following? 1. Is it possible that while doing cvsup i got the server in the middle of updating and got out of sync sources? Is there any way to ensure that this doesnt happen? 2. How can i redirect the output of 'make' in c-shell with stdout in one file and stderr in another? i thied this: make >make_stdout.txt 2>make_stderr.txt but i got messg ambigus redirection. i suspect that the above works for bash only (or maybe not). In any case, what's the equivalent for tcsh? 3. The ports collection, is there a tree for each version ie a tree for 4.3, another for 4.4 etc? For example, if i got 4.3 and get the ports tree of 4.4 or 4.5 am i gonna get trouble? is there any rule for that? 4. Ports can take too long sometimes (download + compile). Is there any advantage of compiling ports instead of tracking and downloading the packages for a given app? packages seem faster. Thanks a lot and sorry for long post. Regards, Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message