From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 8:23:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C463815B6D for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:23:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-005.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.5]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA18994 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:22:59 -0600 Message-ID: <3891C419.C0015543@journalstar.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:30:17 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? References: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> <20000127223528.A2758@extremis.demon.co.uk> <3890F572.17BF6577@nwlink.com> <3891BEEB.9AA13D1A@journalstar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Wells wrote: > > R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > > George Cox wrote: > > > > > > 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) > > > > Kernel panics may be caused by bad hardware, but most of the error codes > > had to do with dependency problems; the ports are suppposed to handle > > this, aren't they? > > I'm looking into the possibility of bad voltage settings on my cpu. I > > wouldn't know how to check my memory, I only know that it is pc100, 128 > > MB sdram and that it is installed correctly. > > > > > > Given a few months more experience, I bet you won't be speaking ill of the > > > ports system. :-) > > > > I still insist that FreeBSD needs a better packaging system for > > installing and upgrading with binaries. I have had a lot of problems > > trying to build metaports for kde and gnome that are definitely not > > hardware related. I'd type in "make" in the gnome metaport, for > > example, and there would be no response, only a new command prompt. > > This was using a freshly updated ports tree. Also, you can't update > > software with the ports, you can only install a new program, and it > > won't uninstall the old one for you. This is *my* experience with the > > ports, if it works for you, wonderful. > > > > When you install a port it records it in the package registry. > Checkout pkg_delete (1) to see how to uninstall a package. You can > use pkg_delete and then build the new port to update a port/package. > I guess I should also mention that you should back up any config files before you delete a package you plan to upgrade, since if they're in the packing list they will get blown away by a pkg_delete. > > -- > > R Joseph Wright > > > > *I merely took the energy it takes to pout > > and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message