-----Original Message----- From: Jud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 10/20/2003 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Osmany Guirola Cruz Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 5.1-Realease UPDATE PORTS
you might try FTP-ing the latest ports collection.
Ok People i download the latest port.tar.gz
it includes the mozilla-firebird if i install it what could happen whit my system it needs xfree greater than i have installed
?what should i do? upgrade the entite syste?
OK, very good - you now have a very recent set of ports "skeletons" (the instructions to download the source for, compile, and install on your system any of over 9000 applications).
As you see, these ports have 'dependencies' (other ports they need), and upgrading a port sometimes means upgrading one or more dependencies. FreeBSD has an excellent application for managing port upgrades that will help you. It is called (not surprisingly) 'portupgrade.' Find it in the ports system (usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade) and install it.
Now, regarding your question whether you should upgrade your whole system: It is a good idea to keep your system up-to-date with your ports. However, the usual way to do this is with cvsup. :( (You should read about CTM, as Kris mentioned, in the Handbook online at the FreeBSD web site to determine whether you might be able to update using that method.) Therefore, you probably want to try installing the latest Mozilla-Firebird without updating your entire system. To do this, after you have installed portupgrade and either rebooted or typed "rehash," type
# portupgrade -RN mozilla-firebird
If you get an error saying a dependency is already installed, you can try
# portupgrade -fRN mozilla-firebird
I have an alternative to suggest that may be quicker and easier, because building the latest mozilla-firebird from the port is a very long process. Did you install Linux emulation when you installed FreeBSD? If yes, then type
# portupgrade linux_base
If not, type
# portupgrade -RN linux_base
or
# portupgrade -RN linux_base-8
(As before, if you see an error that a dependency is already installed, try adding the -f option to portupgrade.) Add the following line to your /etc/rc.conf file if it is not already there:
linux_enable="YES"
Then download the Mozilla-Firebird Linux binary from <URL: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7/MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz>. Install the Linux binary, reboot, and you should have a working version of the latest Mozilla-Firebird on your system in much less time than if you compiled it from a port.
Jud
P.S. Osmany, please type your replies at the bottom rather than the top of the messages to which you are replying, and try to make some kind of visual separation between the original message and your reply. It makes everything much easier to read.
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