From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 17:31:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E79637B419 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:31:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.244.104.36.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.104.36] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JlrX-0004cB-00; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:31:07 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBS1V5407677; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:31:04 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Bernie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Easy Questions -- newcomer Message-ID: <20011227173104.L2090@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Bernie_X@myrealbox.com on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:32:24AM +0000 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:32:24AM +0000, Bernie wrote: [snip] > 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? It is possible, but very rare. > 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). sh, bash, ksh, and some others, but not csh-like ones. > In any case, what's the equivalent for > tcsh? $ ( make > make_stdout.txt ) >& make_stderr.txt > 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? There are no branches on the ports collection, only HEAD. > 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. Use ports if there are customizations you wish to make during the compile process. Ports are more quickly and frequently updated than packages, check version numbers. Other than that, building a port on your own system is just warm fuzzies, no real advantage over packages. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message