On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:43:12AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > El d?a Friday, February 10, 2006 a las 02:28:43PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert > escribi?: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've tried to install xmule in 6.0-REL from the ports > > > collection, but the port is broken: > > > > > > # cd /usr/ports/net/xmule > > > # make > > > ===> xmule-1.10.0.a is marked as broken: Incomplete pkg-plist. > > > # > > > > > > the FreeBSD homepage shows a recent version but in a tree which > > > 6.0-REL not has: /usr/ports/net-p2p > > > > > > What is the correct way to update this tree into my 6.0-REL? > > > > See the FreeBSD Handbook chapter titled "The Cutting Edge." > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > > Thanks for the hint but I don't belong to the 3 groups of persons > mentioned in chapter '21.2.1.2 Who Needs FreeBSD-CURRENT' :-) > I can't put CURRENT on my notebook and lock me out of the world > if is does not boot anymore. I only wanted to test a small piece > of the ports collection.
You don't need -CURRENT. You only need to update your ports-tree to be up-to-date. Installing by hand is possible, but you lose all the advantages of using the ports-tree; ie clean deinstalls, coherent management of build and run dependancies, FreeBSD specific tweaks. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
