Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:07:04 -0700 From: Michael Haro <mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to split the ports collection? Message-ID: <19990417200704.A81975@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <371935DD.A3B70644@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:31:11PM -0500 References: <371935DD.A3B70644@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:31:11PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > The fact is that since the ports system is now on /usr/ports/Mk, and > these files are not available by default, nor are they on the live > filesystem , I had to start installing the complete ports tree and when > sysinstall finished installing the /usr/ports/Mk dir, I abruptly stopped > the installation with Ctrl-C. There clearly has to be a different way of > installing the base files, either a "base port tools" package should be > added, or the ports distribution should be installable by branches like > src is. That is the reason we have upgrade kits at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/. The upgrade kits take care of fixing everything which needs fixing since the release you installed. Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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