Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Frank Staals
On 12/23/09 18:39, Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: Or set PACKAGESITE to: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/ See pkg_add(1) for details. This will usually work for legacy stable branches, but you may actuall

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 08:13:21 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a > > 40G harddrive. > > pkg's are created at the time of release eg 7.2. They are never updated > fo

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new > version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an > error > that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M > slice

Re: Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new > version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an > error > that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M > slice