Changing the owner of your ports tree This is a fairly advanced topic. I don’t mean it’s complicated. It’s just that there is very little reason for anyone to want to do this. I wanted my ports tree to be maintained by something other than root. By default, FreeBSD allows the ports tree to […]
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Have you seen FreshPorts yet? Some of you have have been there from somewhere else, but it was first mentioned here. I’ve been very busy lately putting together a new website. Have a look at http://www.freshports.org/ where you can keep tabs on your favourite ports. Yes, OK, I admit it. This is blatent self-promotion.
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distfile sharing via anonymous FTP # Distfile sharing using anonymous FTP # By Will Andrews andrews@technologist.com # Monday, February 21, 2000 I have a nice Fast Ethernet home network setup. I also have two separate FreeBSD machines; one runs 4.0-CURRENT and the other runs 3.4-STABLE. Now, I have a little problem: I like to use
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When cvsup’ing your ports, remember the base distribution I cvsup my ports on a regular basis. However, when I recently tried to upgrade to OpenSSH 1.2.1, I encountered an error. This article shows what I did wrong. The example problem I was about to upgrade to OpenSSH 1.2.1 from 1.2.0. So I first did
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Installing a port without installing the ports Let’s say you suddenly discover that you need to upgrade a port, but you don’t have the port skeletons installed. What are you going to do? This article talks about how we managed to do that. If you want to update a port collection, try reading Updating the
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using make to upgrade your ports Since this article was written the portupgrade tool was written. I think you should use that tool. This article shows an easy way to upgrade your ports. See also Ports. Ports? What are ports? If you’re reading this and you don’t know what a port is, then you shouldn’t
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What is installed? This article shows you how to find out what packages/ports have been installed on your system and the file associated with those ports. You might also want to see Ports or Packages. OK. What do I have installed? There is a directory which contains a list of everything you have installed on
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Ports or Packages? This article talks about ports versus packages and which might be right for you. What’s a port? A port is the source code and the associated makefile for a program. The port also contains any patches necessary to make the original source code run on FreeBSD. The program is compiled and
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Updating the ports collection This section shows you how I updated my ports collection. I’ll assume you have already installed cvsup. If you need just one port refreshed, try reading Installing a port without installing the ports. Why update the ports? I was trying to make Midnight Commander. But it wasn’t working. Here’s the
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fetch – and how to use it behind a firewall fetch allows you to retrieve a file by supplying a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). It is very useful and powerful tool. It effectively automates an anonymous FTP session. If you get the following message when you use fetch, then I suspect you are behind a
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