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
