From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 18:17:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E4E16A41C for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:17:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CEAB43D49 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:17:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j5RIHJG1084273; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:17:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <42C0421D.8060103@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:14:53 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Murphy References: <42C03E86.6090509@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <42C03E86.6090509@calarts.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about packages and ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:17:27 -0000 Sean Murphy wrote: > I like to use the pkg_add -r feature of FreeBSD, however I have run into > a problem where the ports have a more current version of the app then > the package of the same app. > > It seems the ports collection is updated more then the package > collection is this true? Yes. Packages are built from ports, so you can expect the ports collection version to be as current or more current than the available packages. > Is the maintainer of a package and a port the same person? Are they > responsible for updating the package and the port? I don't believe so, or at least it's not a requirement that I know of. All maintainers are volunteers, and the load of maintaining the port and building and distributing packages is typically distributed over many volunteers. > Packages will download dependencys required by the app does the ports do > this as well? I think this depends on the options that you specify (for either packages or ports). Typically, though -- yes, building a port will automatically build the dependencies. More about packages & ports can be found in Chap. 4 of the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348