[Bug 270758] New: kports fails to update list of software

[aslan7 at gmail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270758

           Summary: kports fails to update list of software
           Product: unknown
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Unlisted Binaries
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: aslan7 at gmail.com


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.5) 
OS:                other

OS is PCBSD, or as it says in the about box, FreeBSD i286 8.2 RELEASE. In
Kports 0.6.1.3.5.10 the cvsup command in the update feature should probably be
csup.  

I always feel so discouraged and defeated when I see the label open source on
software, to me it means unfinished, complicated or impossible to make work.  I
have tried multiple times to learn to use open source software, but it's
absolute misery.  I can't find any basic resources to start with and what I can
find are examples that cover one specific topic without a broader perspective. 
There is no functional manual for everything you need to know.  Sometimes I can
manage to use a piece of open source software, and then something goes wrong
and there's no chance of fixing it without a deep base of technical knowledge.

I'm expecting to type this email and then find out that it wasn't sent because
I didn't manually edit some config file.  

Haha, lol, sending the bug report failed! error message says Unable to send the
bug report.
Please submit a bug report manually...
See http://bugs.kde.org/ for instructions.
Server said: "555 5.5.4 Unsupported option: at" "

How the heck am I supposed to deal with that, it's an error about reporting an
error.

My real question is, is NFS included in PCBSD and if so how do I turn it on? 
The BSD handbook fails to address it, and the help file is a not found error.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open Kports
click update
Click start under number 1

Actual Results:  
Error message "Command 'cvsup -1 -g -L 1 /root/.kports/ports-supfile && echo
kports_success' not found."

Expected Results:  
upgrade the ports tree with csup instead

Is there a manual or resource that can tell me everything I need to know about
PC BSD with a similar level of quality to the edition of Macs for Dummies by
David Pogue that dealt with OS 7?

I'm having a miserable time, but I'm not giving up.

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