From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 22:21:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBE837B699 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:21:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f0G6LB218982; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (tedsbox [192.168.1.20]) by toybox.placo.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09657; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "'Tim McMillen'" , "=?iso-8859-1?B?J0plc/pzIEFybuFpeic=?=" , "'FreeBSD'" Subject: RE: ports Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:35:28 -0800 Message-ID: <002f01c07f7e$22ef7860$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <01011518221208.38397@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----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