From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 18:27:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7FC16A41F for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:27:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [82.68.196.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7F043D4C for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:27:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F29222403; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:27:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89703-09; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:27:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from egg.helenmarks.co.uk (egg.helenmarks.co.uk [192.168.15.3]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25673222402; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:27:22 +0100 (BST) From: Dominic Marks Organization: GoodforBusiness.co.uk To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Maher Mohamed Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:29:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506261929.27681.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: By ClamAV 0.85.1 Cc: Subject: Re: portinstall .vs. make install clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:27:28 -0000 On Sunday 26 June 2005 19:12, Maher Mohamed wrote: > can some tell me what is the difference bitween portinstall and make > install clean, and in which way should one portupgrade its ports? portinstall is a ruby program which comes with portupgrade which you can use to build and install ports. It can do some things which you can't do with a simple 'make install'. For example, I often use portinstall to create packages for a port and its dependancies. See the portupgrade manual page for details about how to use it. You should also look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf for how to set more advanced configurations for your system. > thnk you in advanced -- Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.