From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 19:54: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A99A37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dubium.com (h24-78-225-134.vn.shawcable.net [24.78.225.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408B743E42 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@dubium.com) Received: (qmail 1897 invoked by uid 7794); 30 Sep 2002 02:54:20 -0000 Received: from joe@dubium.com by fafner.dubium.com by uid 7791 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.41. Clear:. Processed in 0.039015 secs); 30 Sep 2002 02:54:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wotan.dubium.com) ([192.168.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Sep 2002 02:54:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: joe To: SweeTLeaF , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bad experience Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:54:24 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <1055310205.20020929172110@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <1055310205.20020929172110@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209291954.24574.joe@dubium.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please don't feed the troll. -Joe On September 29, 2002 03:21 pm, SweeTLeaF wrote: > Hello , > > What is the issue with Freebsd currently? I am trying to move from > Open to Free and i have to say the experience to date is > undesirable.....to say the least. I have tried several different > releases this week and everyone has had issues but the most > frustrating is the packages. The packages are not there, pkg_add > wont work with the format when they are there ex. .tbz, packages > not installing properly ie. not installing their deps and broken > links and pipes and i mean the latter with regards to the .tgz format > which is suppose to work. They did not have any packages for the > release i am currently using ...trying to use (4.7rc2) so i was told > to use the 4-stable packages. Today i took a peek @ the 4-stable and > they appear to be missing just a directory link which gives ./dir not > there errors when trying to access and.... they are once again in the > damn .tgz format which does not work. This is very > frustrating and time consuming. I truly hope that the project is > not normally this sloppy and undocumented, as i continue to look > forward to my initial goal. ---------------------------------------- Joe ----------------------------------------- We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds... Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough for us to find our way back? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message