Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:35:28 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "'Tim McMillen'" <timcm@umich.edu>, "=?iso-8859-1?B?J0plc/pzIEFybuFpeic=?=" <arnaiz@encomix.es>, "'FreeBSD'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: ports
Message-ID:  <002f01c07f7e$22ef7860$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <01011518221208.38397@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tim McMillen
>Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:22 PM
>To: Jesús Arnáiz; FreeBSD
>Subject: Re: ports
>
>
>On Monday January 15, 2001 05:45, Jesús Arnáiz wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've FreeBSD 4.2 installed. I try to install some ports doing this:
>>
>> # mount /cdrom
>> # cd /usr/ports
>> # make
>
>Do you really want to do this?  It will install ALL of the ports.

[start cheap shot]

Boy, I wish that someone would do this every once in a while - then we
might not have gaffes like the imap port that ships on the 4.2 Release
asking for support files for imap that haven't existed on the server
for the last 6 months.

[end cheap shot]

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?002f01c07f7e$22ef7860$1401a8c0>