From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 17:23:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C9B015847 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 2836 invoked by uid 1010); 27 Jan 2000 22:35:28 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:35:28 +0000 From: George Cox To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? Message-ID: <20000127223528.A2758@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i In-Reply-To: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:23:40PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27/01 12:23, R Joseph Wright wrote: > I cannot agree here. I've had too many Error Code 1's while building > ports, and even a few kernel panics. I think the ports have a long way > to go. FreeBSD could use a better packaging system for the installation > of binaries for those of us who don't want to compile every program we > put on our systems. "pkg_add" is adequate, but not nearly as advanced as > rpm. Please do not spread such disinformation unless you know what you are talking about. In this case you apparently don't. Your kernel panics while building are more than likely dodgy hardware. (Check your memory) Given a few months more experience, I bet you won't be speaking ill of the ports system. :-) best; gjvc -- [gjvc] Powered by SMP FreeBSD In god we're trussed http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message