Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 24 January 2005 09:52 pm, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > --- Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 24 January 2005 05:11 am, saravanan > > > > ganapathy wrote: > > > --- Tabor Kelly > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > > > >

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 24 January 2005 05:11 am, saravanan > ganapathy wrote: > > --- Tabor Kelly > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Since I am ver

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 24 January 2005 05:11 am, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > --- Tabor Kelly > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt > > > > the > > > > > ports collecti

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am also looking for package management. I know that > a package can be installed using 'pkg_add -r > sendmail'. But how to keep update these packages like > ports? Use portupgrade for that too; it knows how to deal with ports or packages. > I n

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-24 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Tabor Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > > > --- Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt > the > > ports collections which I don't want. > > Since you are new, I will give you some (ports) > advice: >

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-22 Thread Tabor Kelly
saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want. Since you are new, I will give you some (ports) advice: 1. Always update all of your ports so that you can use portupgrade. 2. Use por

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the > ports collections which I don't want. Then try keeping them all. After the first time, it doesn't take that long to update the collection of makefiles. Note that the ports system does not

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the ports collections which I don't want. I am trying to use freebsd for web hosting servers.Can you list the ports which are not useful for servers? This is a tough question, if you now have a fully updated ports tree and

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > > Yah. I had a mistake and corrected. > > > > It takes longtime to update the ports. I am not > sure > > abt my config. Should I change anything else? > > How long it takes depends on the number of changes, > first

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Yah. I had a mistake and corrected. It takes longtime to update the ports. I am not sure abt my config. Should I change anything else? How long it takes depends on the number of changes, first time will probably take a longer. You can speed up in two ways: instead of po

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > Hai > > > > I am using 5.3release and when I try to update > ports > > collections, I am getting the following error > > > > Release not specified for collection > > "host=cvsup1.freebsd.org" > > > > How to solve th

Re: port update problem - newbie

2005-01-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai I am using 5.3release and when I try to update ports collections, I am getting the following error Release not specified for collection "host=cvsup1.freebsd.org" How to solve this? This could be an invalid tag, but please submit your supfile. Normally you can take