From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 08:21:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDC316A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:21:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5181A43D31 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:21:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8323711623; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:22:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92424-08; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:22:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.20.107] (ALagny-109-1-6-54.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.23.54]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F250115F7; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:22:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <421AEB61.60209@xbsd.org> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:20:49 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7113251C55156B0C153CDB7C" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: "Darryl L. Miles" Subject: Re: pkg_add for 5.2.1 no longer working... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:21:17 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7113251C55156B0C153CDB7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Linimon wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Darryl L. Miles wrote: > > >>My situation is that my ISP pre-installed quite a number of boxes with >>5.2.1 on my behalf, thinking they would have better knowledge of FreeBSD >>to do the right thing for me. > > > Unfortunately I think it is the case that for someone without an > in-depth knowledge of the FreeBSD development process, they should > have installed 4.10 or 4.11 for you. > > >>If it comes down to having to reinstall all the boxes (at my cost) >>unfortunately FreeBSD won't be the first choice to put back on them, >>since the application doesn't care and my experience if far greater >>other flavours of unix. > > > One of your options is to try the 'binary upgrade' which one of our > volunteers maintains (URL, anyone?) But this may be a more advanced > topic than someone not as familiar with FreeBSD could tackle. Website is http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/. FreeBSD Update is part of Colin Percival (great) work, it lives under security/freebsd-update. -- flz --------------enig7113251C55156B0C153CDB7C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCGutmMxEkbVFH3PQRAuYgAJ4rTvuNMAY9WG74dEEumILFKuPulgCcDIG1 VCxWzteztaOrrq+d6cGC8ug= =FOy5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7113251C55156B0C153CDB7C--