From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 1 10:15:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423BA37B41B for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA61541; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:13:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: PetBuilder Cc: fcash@bigfoot.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading Packages. In-Reply-To: <000701c14a85$12626a70$0100a8c0@home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, PetBuilder wrote: > Sorry, With regards to bind, I meant replace. I assumed that upgrading meant > replacing the old program with the new, thereby "upgrading" the old with the > new. Bind is part of the base system. Installation of a package or port will not overwrite the base system, and both versions will be available to you. You'll have to make sure the system uses what you want. Packages and ports are two ways to install the same software; the first gets a precompiled binary and the second fetches the source code and builds the software on your own machine. Once installed, the software is registered in /var/db/pkg and the method of installation is irrelevant. portupgrade is a way to upgrade software and is another "layer" -- perhaps of simplicity, perhaps of complexity. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message