Hello,
I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of
the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any
package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no,
How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages?
thanks,
Hello,
I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of
the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any
package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no,
How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages?
thanks,
At Tue, 24 Jan 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed:
Hello,
I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of
the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any
package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no,
How
The traditional way is to use
CVSuphttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html,
but I prefer portsnap.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html
-David
On 1/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I come from a Debian
hi,
just use cvsup frequently to update your ports tree ;)
by this, u can get latest packages on ports.
regards,
bye.
[ps: i use debian + freebsd. apt-get is my favourite :)]
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Hello,
I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list
of
the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing
any
package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no,
How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages?
I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of
the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any
package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no,
How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages?
I have had
Thanks to everybody, i'll check it out
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The traditional way is to use
CVSuphttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html,
but I prefer portsnap.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html