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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] packages? & new bootables In-Reply-To: adrian@cs.wm.edu's message of Sun, 26 Sep 1993 00: 49:30 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep26052508@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <1993Sep26.004930.22485@cs.wm.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 05:25:08 GMT Lines: 47 In article <1993Sep26.004930.22485@cs.wm.edu> adrian@cs.wm.edu (Adrian Filipi-Martin) writes: 1. I installed using the floppies dated 9/13/93. Is there any thing differnt on the 9/16/93 floppies that I need? e.g. newer kernel. Nope - if the old ones worked for you already, you don't need to worry about them any more! :). As to new kernels, getting your kernel off the floppy install dists is not really what we had in mind for anyone, and what we recommend is that you apply our periodic updates (EPSILON is about to roll out the door in a couple of days), or (better yet) use sup to track our working up-to-the-minute sources straight from freefall.cdrom.com, our active development machine (note: Only recommended if you know your way around the sources well enough to build updated stuff on demand). If you have an internet connection, look in: freefall.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/sup You'll find there the sup program binary, and a sample supfile to use. 2. I've installed several of the packages. (Easy as pie.) but I don't recognize all of the package prefixes. While emacs-19-19 it obvious. What are these packages: sup_*, info_*, jed_*, gic_*, vim_*? Well, I must confess to not having a seriously orthogonal naming scheme in place for these guys yet. Some folks stuck version numbers in their package names, others didn't (at my request, since at the time I didn't much like version numbers imbeded in file names, but I'm coming around to admit that there's not much else one can do in certain cases). In any case, freebsd.cdrom.com also implements an indexing scheme for things, and you can always fetch the 00index.txt file which is auto-generated from the package descriptions. There's also some way to have the ftp server return this information for a given package on demand, but I can't remember it at the moment! I'll go through and put all this in a little more order soon, just as soon as I finish the next revision of the package software - scouts honor! :) Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.