FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> I spoke a little too soon.  I was UPGRADING to KDE4 4.5.2 as I was typing the 
> message.  'portupgrade kde4' was @ approx. 38% when it error'd out on 
> something about 'kdelibs4-4.4.5' too old.  Going to /usr/ports/kdelibs4 and 
> 'make clean', 'make', borked also.  I do not have much time tonight for 
> fiddling so, I deleted my ports tree and cvsup'd /usr/ports again.

1.  Use csup, not cvsup.  csup is in the base system.
2.  Consider using portsnap instead.
3.  Deleting your ports tree before updating it will waste time and
     bandwidth.  Use 'portsclean -C' if you just want to remove work
     directories.
4.  http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html

> I have not looked at PC-BSD because I thought the BSD's were all somewhat 
> similar (powerful, stable, and secure).

PC-BSD is just a desktop installation of FreeBSD and KDE.  Well, there's 
a little more to it than that, but it *is* FreeBSD, not a different BSD.