Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:02:42 -0400 From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to use PORTS from internet Message-ID: <001101bfc1a3$48b95a00$8c6896d1@granitepost.com>
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Hi: Probably stupid newbie question. How do I use newer ports from the internet instead of what came on my CDROM (3.4)? I did read the entire ports section of the HANDBOOK, but can't seem to find the answer to my question. It seems to say that installing ports from the internet is exactly the same as installing them from the CD. This does not seem to be true, because if I do what the HANDBOOK says, and follow exactly the same steps, it installs the port from my CD. Perhaps this is obvious to you Old-Timers, but more information in the handbook might be helpful. Heck, I'd even write it if I knew how to do it. 2 specific examples: 1. I'm thinking about playing with New KDE2. I don't even have a /usr/ports/x11/kde2 directory to change to, to run the make install from. How should I get the "skeleton?" on my system? I tried ftping the kde2 directory to my system, and checked/set permissions like kde1 directory. I ran make install, it only took about 15 seconds to complete, complained about missing stuff and was done. The instructions seemed to say that if anything was missing it would be retrieved from the internet automatically. I checked around on the disk, but couldn't find any changes, and tried running kde, nothing was different and THANKFULLY nothing in kde1 was broke. I tried running make install again to copy the error messages for this message, but now make install tells me it is already installed... 2. Installing latest version of port "foo" assuming earlier version of port foo exists on my system/CDROM. If I follow the handbook instructions for installing from internet, (which say to do exactly same steps as install from CD) then the system simply installs old version of "foo" from CD. Although the handbook doesn't explicitly say this, I'm starting to think that installing ports from the internet probably also involves reading and _understanding_ most of the Handbook chapter 18.3 Synchronizing your source... boy that's a thick chapter. I've used RCS on programming projects, but never CTM or CVS. After skimming 18.3, are there any step by step, how to, FAQ's for dummies that cover this? Am I on the right track about needing to use CVS to update my local ports directory. If I were to update my local ports directory, should I do the whole thing or just a few, I'm kind of worried the some of the newer ports might not work right on an older 3.4 system. Thanks, Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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