From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 17 20: 9:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us (d60-076.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BBE14BFF for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mharo@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us) Received: (from mharo@localhost) by patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us (8.9.2/8.9.2) id UAA82019; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mharo) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:07:04 -0700 From: Michael Haro To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to split the ports collection? Message-ID: <19990417200704.A81975@patrol.area51.fremont.ca.us> References: <371935DD.A3B70644@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <371935DD.A3B70644@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 08:31:11PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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