From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 09:47:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388AA16A40F for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:47:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from mail44.e.nsc.no (mail44.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A7843D49 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:47:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toreld@netscape.net) Received: from [62.16.185.144] (062016185144.customer.alfanett.no [62.16.185.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail44.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k9B9l21X022283 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:47:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <452CBD28.40201@netscape.net> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:45:12 +0200 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061011031055.GA81430@celephais.home.net> <452C766B.3090104@u.washington.edu> <20061011062024.GA3510@celephais.launchmodem.com> In-Reply-To: <20061011062024.GA3510@celephais.launchmodem.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Getting started with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:47:06 -0000 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..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