[LUNA] more pkg questions ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Mon Sep 8 15:57:28 CDT 2014


On 09/08/14 15:41, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> Well, I am 100% noob to FreeBSD, so I'm in the dark .... I thought the
>> 2nd 'pkg version' command showed which of my installed pkg's had
>> updates available, I got that from another list .... I then thought
>> either of the next 2 pkg commands would do the upgrade ....
> Love BSD though I do, I stick to other distros these days. FreeBSD has
> changed enough that I have difficulty keeping up, and the package tools
> don't come close to what the Linux world has to offer.
>
> It was CVSup, now it's subversion.
> It was cd /usr/src ; make world ; make installworld, now it's a longer
> process or freebsd-update.
>
> And even the ports subsystem isn't quite the same.
>
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> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
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Not what I wanna hear, amigo ;-) ....


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