Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:31:52 -0800 From: Michael Rubin <mhr@neverthere.org> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: pecl-fileinfo-0.2 Message-ID: <8421594C-632D-11D9-93B2-000A95CD9CC8@neverthere.org> In-Reply-To: <200501100816.21276.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> References: <D9EF3FD1-62B0-11D9-8922-000A95CD9CC8@neverthere.org> <20050110042727.GA1286@xor.obsecurity.org> <2C368216-62E6-11D9-80AB-000A95CD9CC8@neverthere.org> <200501100816.21276.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm>
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On Jan 10, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > I don't think this is a true statement. You're probably going to > need/want to ask a lot of questions as you find out what it is you need > to do. Actually I knew I would need more, but I did not feel appropriate to keep asking Kris I have other avenues of information to pursue. So I actually would not ask him anymore questions. I don't want to penalize him for helping me out. :-) >> If there is a RTFM I am not doing please feel free to reply with >> RTFM, or point me to the place to get 5.3 STABLE. >> > > Yes, there are. You want to look at the handbook, I would go here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html > > Read chapter 8, 19 and Appendicies A5 and A6. Also, /usr/src/UPDATING > and /usr/ports/UPDATING. > Cool that is what I was looking for. > Kris said you need to update to 5.3-STABLE. To do that there are some > things you're going to need to learn about. In particular, cvsup, > sup-files, and what to do then. I have a cron job running every night that updates my ports via cvsup. I am pretty comfortable with cvsup. It makes me happy. > Can you connect to the Internet using your FBSD box? I looked at the > headers on your email and noticed Apple Mail. Yeah that is easy. I am just using an apple box as my desktop. I have two bsd servers that have been rock solid for years. I am upgrading them from 4.4 to 5.3. I am finding there is much I need to refresh in my knowledge base. Thank you guys very much for your help. This was much more then I expected. mhr
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