From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 20:52:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 20:52:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4594437B404 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dougy (dougy.apana.org.au [203.3.126.131]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27242 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:58:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <000e01c0658a$ee1f3a10$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: where have all the ports & sysinstall packages gone ?? Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:01:25 +1000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been installing 4.2 on a number of systems & have been experiencing considerable difficulty locating either ports or sysinstall packages for a number of applications. It appears that none of the ftp sites carry anything like the range of applications that were available for previous versions. eg where can I get a port or a package for apache 1.3.14 ?? I realize that a number of applications were broken or couldn't be successfully installed without being compiled (mgetty comes to mind) but the vast majority of things I use have always worked fine from sysinstall (cucipop / sudo / links / lynx / pine / apache / etc) I've tried compiling several applications from from source, but since I'm not extremely experienced in wading through the somewhat terse makefiles I haven't been able to get many things working properly this way. Applications compiled from source (whether working or otherwise) appear near impossible to uninstall without considerably more understanding than I possess, (I've yet to see one where "make deinstall" works) whereas with applications installed via sysinstall its simply a matter of "unchecking" a box. Anyway, having had my rant, would someone please arrange to have the packages & ports stuff fixed sometime so that the lesser experienced of us can get all the things we need working ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message