Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:45:12 +0200 From: Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting started with FreeBSD Message-ID: <452CBD28.40201@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <20061011062024.GA3510@celephais.launchmodem.com> References: <20061011031055.GA81430@celephais.home.net> <BCB72B3C-CD47-440A-9B94-73F64B19BB03@redstarling.com> <452C766B.3090104@u.washington.edu> <20061011062024.GA3510@celephais.launchmodem.com>
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cothrige wrote: > [snip] > However, after reading you post, I am thinking that the packages are > only available for the snapshots labelled RELEASE. Am I right? All > updates and changes made in between one release and the next are via > sources. Would that be accurate? I wondered about the same thing some time ago. I was told by one of the gurus to try packages-6-stable, which would most likely work with 6.1-RELEASE. So I tried to fetch the latest Firefox in this way: pkg_add [no line break] ftp://ftp.<mirror>.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/www/firefox-1.5.0.7,1.tbz Seems to work fine. However, I tried to do the same thing with Thunderbird (mail/thunderbird-1.5.0.7.tbz), and then I got many warnings about libraries not being up to date. Could I have done it differently to get dependencies updated as well? Just a few extra words in section 4.4.1 the handbook could probably have cleared this up. -- Tore
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