From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 13: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luzifer.webseek.de (luzifer.webseek.de [62.96.181.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAEC337B4CF for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25676 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2000 20:00:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webseek.de) (62.96.181.198) by 192.168.27.19 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2000 20:00:51 -0000 Message-ID: <39ECAFA4.DB4A0C19@webseek.de> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:59:32 +0200 From: Wolfgang Zeikat Organization: WSI Webseek Infoservice GmbH & Co. KG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: updating software packages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG after reading about installing gnome 1.2 on http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/October/Features310.html i wonder: can i somehow use /stand/sysinstall to install the ports of gnome version 1.2 (more recent than the default 1.0.* that comes with FreeBSD 4.0) from the ftp site? or how else would i select and install packages from the directory ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/packages/gnome/ ? i would prefer some method that handles dependencies greetings wolfgang -- http://www.infoseek.de Wolfgang Zeikat Technik/Tech Department - System Administrator - e-Mail: w.zeikat@webseek.de WSI Webseek Infoservice GmbH & Co. KG Buero/Office: Herrengraben 3, D-20459 Hamburg Post/Mail: Brieffach 8250, D-20350 Hamburg Telefon/Phone: (00)49-(0)40-300-69-322 Fax: (00)49-(0)40-300-69-199 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message