On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 "Carl Creason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for the ignorance but what is "portsystem". > I googled, but the few pages I found were in German > and seemed to be about FreeBSD. >
Yes, it is the packagesystem in FreeBSD....it downloads, compiles and installs with only one command
*BSD ports and packages are different systems. The package system works as you mention, the ports system does not. The package system does not support upgrades. You must uninstall the current release, then install the next release.
The *BSD ports system is awful. It is one single large download including a very large number of software products. It will download a specific product source tarball(s), apply patches for *BSD, then install. The problems start when you install multiple products using ports system and you want to upgrade one and not others. Then you must maintain multiple copies of these big downloads.
Frank
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