Essentially, you want a CVS (or equivalent tool) for the system
administrator. This could be a project management tool for OS binary or
source releases and updates.
The CVS concept would be able to manage the synchronization with current
source as it does now, and could include binary.
Then
Thanks to the email from some kind members here, it is likely that my
problems are not fatal, just temporarily blocking me. I plan to do
another attempt on Mt 6.0, with proper planning, base and upper camps,
and of course, porter support.
Thanks to those who wrote.
BillN
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Let me add my voice to this discussion. I have been a happy user of
FreeBSD from 4.0 thru 4.11, but have stumbled repeatedly on 5.x and now 6.0.
For some reason, I can get these (5 & 6) installed, but not stable or
running KDE, yet 4.11 runs solid for months. In addition, not being able
to run