From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 13:41:21 2004 Return-Path: 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 BEF2416A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-45.apple.com [17.250.248.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72DE43D41 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i3KKf7Zj003139; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)i3KKf63Z018025; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:41:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9131327F-9309-11D8-BEA8-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> References: <9131327F-9309-11D8-BEA8-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <09673C83-930B-11D8-A8CA-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:41:01 -0400 To: Bart Silverstrim X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: sysinstall/ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:41:21 -0000 On Apr 20, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > I am in the process of installing X with Gnome from /stand/sysinstall. > Will the packages added through this be the same as those from ports, > or is there a way to use ports (portupgrade) to update the packages? The packages installed that way are the same as what you would get building them via ports yourself, except that packages correspond to the state of the ports tree back in time when the packages were actually built. > Do I have to do something to change the version used to the ports > version if I want to keep up to date with portupgrade? Nope. The ports system doesn't distinguish between installing via a package or via a port, and can upgrade either one just as easily... -- -Chuck