Lowell Gilbert said:
> If you think you see specific places to improve the documentation,
> please write it up and submit it in a Problem Report. FreeBSD is,
> after all, a volunteer project...;2~
That would probably be a better use of my time than grousing about it on a
mailing list, so I think
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That phrase -- "ports build packages" is just so right on so many
> levels. Except for the literal description of what actually happens.
It seems that a lot of the supposed confusion of novices comes from
the fact that we don't have a separate word to
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:13:31PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> Charles Ulrich wrote:
>
> > The phrase "ports
> > build packages" is a neat and efficient way of rectifying the
> > misunderstandings that can occur when trying to give a proper
> > explanation of FreeBSD package management.
> Thank
"Charles Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just out of curiosity, is it incorrect to simply say that ports build
> packages?
No, packages are indeed built from ports.
> That is, once a piece of software is installed with 'make install',
> is it treated the same as any package that
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:47:03 -0400 (EDT)
"Charles Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lowell Gilbert said:
> > In FreeBSD, a "port" is a third-party application ported to be built
> > from
> source on your system. A "package" is a pre-compiled binary of that
> port. Once installed, they are both
Charles Ulrich wrote:
> The phrase "ports
> build packages" is a neat and efficient way of rectifying the
> misunderstandings that can occur when trying to give a proper
> explanation of FreeBSD package management.
>
Charles,
Thank you for concisely answering a burning question I didn't
know
Lowell Gilbert said:
> In FreeBSD, a "port" is a third-party application ported to be built from
source on your system. A "package" is a pre-compiled binary of that port.
Once installed, they are both tracked (and removable) by the same database,
usually referred to as the "package database". Se
