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RFC: Alternate Ports Fix For Older FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the update-install-correct dept.

Dan writes "For those of you running older versions of FreeBSD (prior to 4.7), FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke has an alternate fix for the recent port install problem people were seeing. This fix involves adding a new port, pkg_install, which is a snapshot of the -CURRENT pkg_install code. This port can change periodically as new pkg_* features are added that bsd.port.mk depends on. Joe is also looking for testers for this fix."

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  1. Re:Grammer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's grammar not grammer silly grammar troll. Why waste +1 bonus on this??

  2. Cant' be found. by dsb3 · · Score: 1

    I took a look at the new port pkg_install ...

    The file pkg_install-20030714.tar.bz2 that is referenced cannot be found on any of the freebsd FTP servers.

    Ho hum.

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    1. Re:Cant' be found. by dsb3 · · Score: 1

      It's fixed, if anyone else was interested...

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  3. Cool Beans by craig2787 · · Score: 1

    I think supporting older versions of FreeBSD important, to keep older systems secure and up to date (where they can be...).

  4. Re:problems with BSD by RinkSpringer · · Score: 1

    Flame, but I'll bite anyway ...

    If you read the MANUAL, which you didn't, you would turn on a technique called Soft Updates, which *WILL* speed up your disk I/O. And even *if* it takes 20+ minutes, you've got either a broken disk or a broken system...

    Futhermore, if your Netscape isn't working, it's probably because you didn't bother to set it up properly. I use Mozilla a lot, and once it's loaded, it works like a charm and damn fast too.

    I've used *BSD for a long time now, and it has been the most stable and responsive OS I have *EVER* used. And it _does_ beat Linux very much. I've ran both FreeBSD 4.7 and Gentoo Linux 1.3 on my Athlon XP 2200+ with 512MB RAM, and FreeBSD is much more responsive than Linux was.

    To finish, there are a load of reasons why people chose FreeBSD and not something else. But mind you, it's usually a person's taste. If you don't set FreeBSD up in a decent way (not that it's hard, just RTFM), you can wonderfully tune it ... and much better than Linux, in my experience anyway.

    Anyway, just my 0.02 euro's. Couldn't let this flame war continue ...