> something to keep in mind .... portmaster does the same thing and all of > portupgrades switches work with portmaster, the only significant difference > is that portmaster will run through and prompt you for all of the 'make > config' options first and then go about it's business unattended from that > point on... it will test for a valid set of config options in all of it's > deps before it builds anything, so for something large like gnome, you might > sit there for a while answering config screens, but once it's done, it will > require no more interaction unless a make dies for some reason... > > -- >> A: Yes. >> >Q: Are you sure? >> >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >> >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
Now, another question. I was thinking about this. Should I have popped in a dvd and just used it to upgrade? Should I have run # make buildworld or some magical command(s) that will build the system against newer binaries and newer ports so that the system works better and optimized? I have limited experience using FreeBSD :(, have used it on and off since release 5.3 with KDE 3.4/3.5 series. I installed it and had dialup at home tried to get the ltmodem port working, but did not succeed :(, and I left it as pristine as it was. I also got a BSDLiveCD : by Scott Ullrich: http://livebsd.com/ \begin{quote} Inception LiveBSD was founded by Scott Ullrich and Chris Buechler in January 2004. It started its life as an open source project, modifying FreeSBIE scripts to build FreeBSD-based live CD's. A name was decided on, and the domain registered on February 28, 2004. The first LiveBSD Desktop CD was released at that time, a KDE desktop live CD based on FreeBSD 5.2, built using modified FreeSBIE scripts. \end{quote} I really liked it and used it at school. However the project died/was unsupported, it appears FreeSBIE has not had much love either. So far it has not prompted me for any configurations. Had done that for two/three days with the previous command: # portupgrade -af Then # freebsd-update install but the ports/packages were still for old 8.1 release :(, now I have updated ports tree with # portsnap fetch # portsnap extract and # portsnap install and running : # portupgrade -arRp I hope that it would finish soon. I don't know enough like I would like to. Sadly :( except for installing some ports [cd /usr/ports/editor/some-package/, make install clean] and the package would build after configuring some stuff :), but now the stuff was overwhelming :( and I would have preferred to learn a quick and not too painful way of updating :) But this is part of learning and I will take it in stride. It is building new documentation packages handbook for several languages some new packages and it is moving nicely :) Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
