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I can avoid FreeBSD 14 no longer. Can the ports tree from the release media be updated? Or do I have to start with the Handbook approved method of installing it with git?

This is a perennial question in my mind and also in the forums. What's driving me to ask it again is that I've recently spent some time doing Gentoo and there, I can easily see the tradeoffs - Gentoo allows the admin FULL control over the system and is very minimal and peppy, yet as cutting edge...

Hi all, A question, a few years ago I moved my Desktop machine from Linux to Ghost BSD. This was not advised by someone, but it looks ok, and I was too fuzzed from medication to take the step to FreeBSD or OpenBSD ( had some 20-year-old experience.... and used other Unix OS's (paid ones ))...

Hello there everyone! Sorry if this thread is a duplicate or violates the rules in any way, I researched as well as I could before posting. I realize that the FreeBSD way of ports configuration is by means of an Ncurses option selection menu for each package, however I do prefer as much as...

Hi! https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ and https://www.freshports.org/ ports are the same and are already installed/synchronized by default on fresh install if select ports? If not, how could I install and use them? I'm on 13.2

Any chance of getting urban Terror added to the ports? I followed Vermaden's post for native Urban Terror and it played perfectly. But it would be nice to have the option to pkg install urbanterror. I have an OpenBSD system now and to my shock its available via pkg_add UrbanTerror. Just a...

Hi all! For several days I have been trying to build science/py-tensorflow, but everything stops with various errors. If anyone can build this package with the CPUTYPE?=core2 option and put it in a public place I would be very grateful.

Hi, I have a newbie question related to being careful not to mix the PKG binary approach with the (building from) Ports approach. The handbook warns against using a mix of these two approaches and the likely eventual collision of binaries, but I think I might be reading it too strictly. Does...

So, something aggravating occurred with freebsd a couple days back, where i was attempting to get into graphics programming, i installed glad, and didn't pay attention, and it deleted my entire desktop and every graphical program, this occurred on 14-CURRENT. Would anyone know why? I'd want to...

I have search for an answer but didn't find it. first, a short description: I would like to build ports in a jail. From an example and the handbook suggestion, I have mounted the ports tree (ro) into the jail and have set "WRKDIRPREFIX=/tmp" etc. ... for places that must be writable. Result...

I have been running FreeBSD 14-Current for about a month now and have been enjoying it besides the odd crashes here and there. It is not as many crashes as OpenBSD 7.2-Current was giving me however. I am stuck with 14-Current for now because on my Intel 2.5GB Lan and RX 6600 GPU not being...

I see that openSSL has to be built for tls 1.3 support, but i am not sure of how to do that on freeBSD 13.1 RELEASE.

gnutls-3.7.3_1,1 What do those postfixes mean? I understand the 3.7.3 part but not the "_1" part and the ",1" part. I don't remember them extending to binary packages either.

I see the following problem when I want to update the FreeBSD 12.3 packages: Checking integrity... done (3 conflicting) - boehm-gc-threaded-8.2.2 conflicts with boehm-gc-8.0.6 on /usr/local/include/gc/gc_pthread_redirects.h - libxcvt-0.1.2_1 conflicts with xorg-server-1.20.14,1 on...

Good Day FreeBSD Forums, I upgraded from 12.2 to 12.3 and have been trying to update all my ports. There was a problem trying to update Sudo (using portmaster, I forget what the exact error was) so I uninstalled Sudo and then tried re-installing it, and this is where I run into the errors...

Here is an example of a single FreeBSD port in 3 terminals in the screenshot. The ncurses menu on the left shows the menu after make config is run from the port directory. You can see the graphics/blender directory and a few files, including the Makefile in the top right terminal. In the bottom...

I'd like to host a local replication of the entire FreeBSD Ports trees along with rolling updates which divert things like historical code changes within a repo to separate branches such that if there's a malicious editor of a repo they don't overwrite local copies of code. Is there a simple...

I'm getting the following from make install in /usr/ports/sysutils/docker - any thoughts? # make install ===> NOTICE: The docker port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in the future. To...

I use python310 as system default (/etc/make.conf). When I try to build node16 from ports it tries to build and install dependant python38 port. I have already HATED python! All packages try to install ALL versions of python to my system at the same time!!! When will this stupid python language...

It wouldn't be great that someone develop a way, or a port/package to solve dependencies on ports? Or there are some problems about what I talk of?