freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 92, Issue 40

[Christopher Kelley]

Jay O'Brien <jayobrien at att.net> wrote:


>Alec,
>
>Thanks, I searched the FreeBSD Handbook for "dependency" and didn't find any 
>reference to "make search". I guess it is one of those things that once you 
>know about it you don't have to look for it any more. Unfortunately a lot 
>of the documentation I can review is written for those folks who already 
>know the answers. 
>
>Thanks for the heads up on 'make search', even if I can't find a complete 
>description of the command. I find that it is referenced in the manual, 
>however. 
>
>I see that several of the packages that were installed aren't listed in the 
>dependencies for portupgrade. Only the two ruby programs are listed. 
>
>Jay
>  
>
Jay,

I have found the FreeBSD basics articles over at onlamp.com to be 
invaluable.

Linky: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15

The two articles "portupgrade" and "Ports Tricks" (currently about 13 
articles down) are valuable enough to me that I printed them out!

I know it does sometimes seem that you need to know the answer before 
you know what to google for, but until someone invents a better way to 
search (e.g. somehow knowing the context of your search), it's worth 
trying a few different things in google.

Christopher