Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / thanks for responding



On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:36:09 -0400
"Sean Cavanaugh" <Millenia2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


This is the first time I ever actually downloaded all 3 CD's so i
didn't know what I was getting into. I had always just used the
first CD for the initial install, then ports for everything else.
Next time I will use the dvd. Actually that would have been perfect
as I got one of those unusual 550kB/s connections from ftp, lol.

But I decided this time to get as many packages as quickly as
possible, then run portupgrade on them to get the latest versions.

I think it might be easier to use pkg_add -r to get up-to-date 7-stable
packages
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