Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:44:42 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports, Packages and sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901211738170.14747-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <001701be459c$546c9710$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Shanes wrote: > 1. I went to the Ports page at FBSD.org and downloaded the ports > upgrade for my 2.2.6 release. The I did and add_pkg 227upgr.tgz and it > seemed to install correctly. I looked in the /usr directory and there > is *no* /ports subdirectory. I thought that the pkg_add > upgradefilename installed the ports? Right thing to do (grab the upgrade) but that only install the appropriate bsd.port.*.mk files in /usr/share/mk, not the entire ports tree. You could grab the ports tarball from ftp.freebsd.org by hand (since you have problems w/ sysinstall). I have no idea what that problem might be BTW. fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/ports/ports.tgz will grab the 2.2.8-RELEASE ports tree which should work for you. It's about 6.7 MB. Once you've grabbed it, move it to /usr and do a tar xzf ports.tgz to extract it (add the v switch if you want it verbose). (second question from another email included here) > To add more info - I installed XFree86 when I installed 2.2.6 > -release, but never used it as it lacked support for the Neomagic > chipset. I want to install 3.3.3 since it now has support. Do I need > to *uninstall* the old version first? Yeppers - it will make things lots easier on yourself. If you did any work on an XF86Config be sure to make a copy of it and put it somewhere where it won't accidentally get blown away on the pkg_delete. Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "love isn't someplace that we fall, it's something that we do" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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