Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:26:27 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Munish Chopra <messiah_man@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports update during make world and kernel ppp Message-ID: <20010329122627.H5300@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <F60Rw1SSfWXWzRPTNZS00000747@hotmail.com>; from messiah_man@hotmail.com on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:15:19PM %2B0200 References: <F60Rw1SSfWXWzRPTNZS00000747@hotmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:15:19PM +0200, Munish Chopra wrote: > First off, the ports tree. When I cvsup the system and make world, will this > update any installed ports too, or must I make uninstall, update the ports > tree, and then make install the port? The latter. Or you could use pkg_delete(1) instead of make uninstall. > Second of all, I use ppp to connect to the net. In my kernel configuration > file, should I enable ppp, or can I do without that if I'd rather run it in > userland? There are two different implementations of PPP; kernel-supported PPP (aka pppd(8)) which uses that kernel config option, and user-mode ppp (aka ppp(8)). Unless you have specific reasons to use pppd (unlikely), use ppp(8): it's better maintained and more featureful. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6w5pzWry0BWjoQKURAuIaAKCTDLiQFDIDXfeYXKssFu+5ZOi0fACfa6Ct An8JdyubcJMVXviLRZIUFig= =6hS/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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