From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 2:35:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6B037B424 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 02:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f4A9Yok26215; Thu, 10 May 2001 02:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Rasputin" , "dannyman" Cc: Subject: RE: (long) upgrade kit for 3.x ports?! Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:34:50 -0700 Message-ID: <00a301c0d934$75fe49e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010510095219.A81644@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of course you can always compile the software by hand without using Ports. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rasputin >Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:52 AM >To: dannyman >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: (long) upgrade kit for 3.x ports?! > > >* dannyman [010510 02:04]: >> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:24:44AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> I mean, 3.5 was released LESS THAN ONE YEAR AGO and now I am FORCED TO >> UPGRADE if I want to install a single piece of software?! That >strikes me as >> pointlessly fascist. >> >> *sigh* > >I can imagine it's a pain in the ass, but if 5.0's ever going to ship, I >suppose the development team needs to take time from something to >devote to it. > >Surely if you're getting the ports updated, you could just update the >system the same way (cvs)? (Sorry if it's a blindingly obvious reason, >but my first coffee of the morning is sat waiting to be drunk, >so my brain hasn't woken up yet) > >-- >"Adopted kids are such a pain -- you have to teach them how to look >like you ..." > -- Gilda Radner >Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message