Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 21:29:57 +0200 From: Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reason 23 why we've moved to linux Message-ID: <20140322192957.GA30818@pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: <m2y502qda9.wl%randy@psg.com> References: <53287821.4040209@freebsd.org> <m2ha6v1m4z.wl%randy@psg.com> <5328A03A.3000305@freebsd.org> <m261n6rtkf.wl%randy@psg.com> <532DD2EB.1080204@freebsd.org> <m238iart92.wl%randy@psg.com> <532DD64B.9000905@freebsd.org> <m2zjkiqds8.wl%randy@psg.com> <532DD978.3010502@freebsd.org> <m2y502qda9.wl%randy@psg.com>
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 03:49:34AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> and i have two 9 systems where i try to use freebsd-update. also a
> time-consuming rabbit hole leading nowhere pleasant. e.g.
>
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE-p3
Lose the "-p3", because freebsd-update will get you to the lastet
patch level. If you don't like this behaviour, you can use svn.
So:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE
Please remeber, all hardware sucks, all software sucks.
If you think that some piece of HW, SW or FW does not suck, it is
because you have "acclimated" yourself to that piece of, oops I'm
starting to digress.
FWIW, I've been using FreeBSD since 1.x times and at that time I cursed
why ports would only work on 2.x, not on 1.x, because ports handed the
depenedcy hell when compiling that piece of, aand I'm digressing again.
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