Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:59:18 -0500 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "paul beard" <paulbeard@mac.com>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to makestuff work?) Message-ID: <002c01c41784$902e93b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <1D4AE2AB-820A-11D8-802A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com><20040330090117.GA29759@xor.obsecurity.org><8F7546F2-8361-11D8-B5EE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com><20040331232837.GA57846@xor.obsecurity.org><A51989C0-8372-11D8-B5EE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com><20040401002936.GB58778@xor.obsecurity.org> <48468E86-8374-11D8-B5EE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com>
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> On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > You're not doing it right, then :-) > > > > Use portupgrade with the -PP switch to force the use of packages. > > > > What if there isn't a package for a given port? I wasn't aware > there were packages (though I suppose for an ancient release > like 4.9 there might be). How is 4.9 ancient? It's the most recent release supported for production use. (Refer to http://www.freebsd.org if you doubt this.) You can find all the packages you want for 4.9 at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/packages -- Matt Emmerton
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