[Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Duane Whitty
Original Message Subject:Re: package vs ports question Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:04 -0300 From: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I also have a question

Re: [Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: package vs ports question Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:04 -0300 From: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I

Re: [Fwd: Re: package vs ports question]

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:15:07 -0400 Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the installation process install any package that may be overriden by any port? yes. for example ,you select to install bash-3 from sysinstall ( the freebsd installer UI ). this reads and installs the package

Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
Thanks for the answer. I just hope I'm not messing things too much. So if a port may override a package, is the only solution to this generate a package then install it? Now if this happens, what will happen for example (supposing I install everything from packages - or make package then pkg_add

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:57:49 -0300 Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answer. I just hope I'm not messing things too much. np :) So if a port may override a package, a port and a package are the same thing, in a different form :). the tree structure under

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote: Thanks for the answer. I just hope I'm not messing things too much. So if a port may override a package, is the only solution to this generate a package then install it? Now if this happens, what will happen for example (supposing I install everything from

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread RW
On Monday 27 March 2006 14:20, Norberto Meijome wrote: make package will actually make the package and install it for you, you dont need to do a pkg_add after that (yes, a bit counter-intuitive, but really handy) Make package creates a package out of an installed port (it will install the

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 27 March 2006 09:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote: Thanks for the answer. I just hope I'm not messing things too much. So if a port may override a package, is the only solution to this generate a package then install it? Now if this happens, what will

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 27 March 2006 09:49, RW wrote: On Monday 27 March 2006 14:20, Norberto Meijome wrote: make package will actually make the package and install it for you, you dont need to do a pkg_add after that (yes, a bit counter-intuitive, but really handy) Make package creates a package out

package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
Wow, I stopped following this thread for a few hours and now I can just compile a mini-ports howto. ^^ So, first things first: thanks for all who replied. All replies were meaningful, so thank you all. Kevin, what I didn't know was the fact that ports and packages share the same database. Knowing

Re: Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread RW
On Monday 27 March 2006 17:02, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Monday 27 March 2006 09:49, RW wrote: On Monday 27 March 2006 14:20, Norberto Meijome wrote: make package will actually make the package and install it for you, you dont need to do a pkg_add after that (yes, a bit

Re: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote: Wow, I stopped following this thread for a few hours and now I can just compile a mini-ports howto. ^^ So, first things first: thanks for all who replied. All replies were meaningful, so thank you all. Kevin, what I didn't know was the fact that ports and

package vs ports question

2006-03-26 Thread Huy Ton That
I am curious, the key different between packages and ports are that packages are precompiled and ports are not? Am I erroneous in this statement? I'm a little confused as I have been always using make install clean from the ports and don't see the difference... Has anyone else had the same

Re: package vs ports question

2006-03-26 Thread Duane Whitty
Huy Ton That wrote: I am curious, the key different between packages and ports are that packages are precompiled and ports are not? Am I erroneous in this statement? I'm a little confused as I have been always using make install clean from the ports and don't see the difference... Has anyone