From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 30 12:28:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27915 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from finsco.com (ns1.finsco.com [205.241.191.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA27909 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billh@finsco.com) Received: from finsco.com by finsco.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA08672; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:25:10 -0600 Message-ID: <368A8CAD.5C256B40@finsco.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:27:25 -0600 From: Bill Hamilton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aa204@acorn.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What comes on the cd distribution? References: <001801be3423$62890840$ba96d0d1@birch.ogurok.com> <19981230144901.C8558@home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Foltz wrote: (snip) > 5. When I installed a few packages (precomiled), They were installed un > the /usr/local hierarchy. Some package info was also stored in > /var/db/package-name. Is this db info used by any package tools or > anything? sysinstall didn't seem to know I had already installed some > packages. See man page for pkg_info, pkg_delete, etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message