From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 15:20:54 2002 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 3D68337B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB4143E65 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com) Received: from traveling-man SweeTLeaF@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [12.239.9.75] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.12 $ on Novell NetWare; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 16:20:52 -0600 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 17:21:10 -0500 From: SweeTLeaF X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: SweeTLeaF Organization: Hydroponic Dreams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1055310205.20020929172110@myrealbox.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Bad experience MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 , What is the issue with Freebsd currently? I am trying to move from Open to Free and i have to say the experience to date is undesirable.....to say the least. I have tried several different releases this week and everyone has had issues but the most frustrating is the packages. The packages are not there, pkg_add wont work with the format when they are there ex. .tbz, packages not installing properly ie. not installing their deps and broken links and pipes and i mean the latter with regards to the .tgz format which is suppose to work. They did not have any packages for the release i am currently using ...trying to use (4.7rc2) so i was told to use the 4-stable packages. Today i took a peek @ the 4-stable and they appear to be missing just a directory link which gives ./dir not there errors when trying to access and.... they are once again in the damn .tgz format which does not work. This is very frustrating and time consuming. I truly hope that the project is not normally this sloppy and undocumented, as i continue to look forward to my initial goal. -- Best regards, SweeTLeaF mailto:SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message