From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 29 19:29:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A21E16A420 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:29:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5544E13C45D; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:29:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <46FEA7B7.50104@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:29:59 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Jeffery References: <972994690709291217t3bdd7d5bh2890c783f2cf4cc7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <972994690709291217t3bdd7d5bh2890c783f2cf4cc7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:29:57 -0000 James Jeffery wrote: > Does 7.0 come with a disk for the Ports Collection or would they have > to be downloaded from the internet? When it is released you will be able to buy a CD set containing some of the packages, but if you are downloading then you will have to use the usual methods for adding them (pkg_add -r, etc). > Im having trouble getting packages from the web, lots of errors when i > try to install them. Everything seems dependant on everything else. Well yeah, lots of packages do :) > Once i get the SSH to work i will post some output. But for now, is there > a problem installing packages on 7.0? Not in general. Get back to us when you have more details. Kris