From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 18:23:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21321 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA21254 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 12833 invoked by uid 1003); 29 Aug 1998 01:21:41 -0000 Message-ID: <19980829032141.A11420@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 03:21:41 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Mark Stosberg , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ rules! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Mark Stosberg on Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 03:34:22PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 1998-08-28 (15:34), Mark Stosberg wrote: > the magic you've got going on with the /usr/ports set up just kicks ass. It's > amazing. I'm not sure if there could be a mechanism to check for latest > versions of stuff, that'd be the only improvement I could think to make. > Thanks for a great OS! Read http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html for information on how to update your ports collection. I must agree, the ports collection was one of the first main drawcards that FreeBSD had for me, coming from a Linux environment, and I can't see myself ever going back to it as my main OS. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message