Hi Richard,
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 01:05:15PM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
> One other thing which I forgot to add to my last email, my father always
> used to remind me that "there are no stupid questions," but it appears to
> me that your openbsd group does not hold to that adage.
We do pr
> my father always used to remind me that
> "there are no stupid questions,"
Sure, that applies to children asking questions
to their parents or teachers.
It applies less when you call technical support; though
the support staff will usually remain patient and polite
as long as you pay good money
One other thing which I forgot to add to my last email, my father always
used to remind me that "there are no stupid questions," but it appears to
me that your openbsd group does not hold to that adage.
Most questions are judged as being some level of "stupid" and the person
who asked the "stupid"
On Jan 21 09:44:14, Richard Thornton wrote:
> Let me make it crystal clear for you since I realize English is not your
> native tongue. I d/l #65
No you didn't. Really. There is no way to go and "download #65".
There is no such thing as "OpenBSD #65".
What you most probably did is you downloaded
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 06:10:27AM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
> Nick, Do you ever lighten up? Were you the guy correcting the
>professor every few minutes annoying everyone? Seriously! What
>happened to you?! My background is Solaris and SuSE, not OpenBSD,
>but when Solaris 9 failed to forma
Nick, Do you ever lighten up? Were you the guy correcting the professor every
few minutes annoying everyone? Seriously! What happened to you?! My
background is Solaris and SuSE, not OpenBSD, but when Solaris 9 failed to
format my disks thus rendering my old blade a brick, I was in a panic. M
On 01/20/12 13:43, Richard Thornton wrote:
> Eureka! You were right, I was using the *wrong* 5.0 release..
You keep using words...that do not mean what you think they mean.
PLEASE read and understand FAQ5.1. Its really, really important.
Nick.
Eureka! You were right, I was using the *wrong* 5.0 release..
Richard
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:50:08AM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
>
> > Is this the most recent current version for sparc64 and does this imply
> > that I have the t
On 2012-01-20, Pete Vickers wrote:
> Instead, why not solve the general case rather than specific cases. Since the
> install script now guesses location for nearest mirror for install source ( &
> TZ etc), then I don't see why it couldn't setup a sane default PKG_PATH in
> /etc/profile (can be eas
Op Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:12:31 +0100 schreef Remco
:
Martin Pelikan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Francois Pussault wrote:
I use this :
# echo $PKG_PATH
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/sparc64/
In case someone googles that and would think it's a good idea to
On 20. jan. 2012, at 01.50, Martin Pelikan wrote:
>
> ... better alternative:
>
> echo 'export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.XX.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname
-r`/packages/`uname -m`/' >> ~/.profile
>
> for -release and -stable, or
>
> echo 'export
PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.XX.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packa
Martin Pelikan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Francois Pussault wrote:
>> I use this :
>> # echo $PKG_PATH
>> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/sparc64/
>
>
> In case someone googles that and would think it's a good idea to set the
> variable like so, here's a be
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Francois Pussault wrote:
> I use this :
> # echo $PKG_PATH
> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/sparc64/
In case someone googles that and would think it's a good idea to set the
variable like so, here's a better alternative:
echo 'export PKG_
es/sparc64/
:
:
:>
:> From: Richard Thornton
:> Sent: Thu Jan 19 17:50:08 CET 2012
:> To: misc
:> Subject: OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC) #65: Thu Nov 3 00:58:36 MDT 2011
:>
:>
:> Is this the most recent current version for sparc64 and does this imply
:> that I have th
Hi,
I use this :
# echo $PKG_PATH
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/sparc64/
>
> From: Richard Thornton
> Sent: Thu Jan 19 17:50:08 CET 2012
> To: misc
> Subject: OpenBSD 5.0-current (GENERIC) #65: Thu Nov 3 00:58:36 MDT 201
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:50:08AM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
> Is this the most recent current version for sparc64 and does this imply
> that I have the true "current" kernel running, thus my PKG_PATH should be
> set to pull for the "current" set of packages?
You are mistaken. Latets snapsho
Is this the most recent current version for sparc64 and does this imply
that I have the true "current" kernel running, thus my PKG_PATH should be
set to pull for the "current" set of packages?
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