From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 7: 0:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tas21-atm.tampabay.rr.com (tas21-atm.tampabay.rr.com [24.92.0.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B87915410 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 07:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Spambait@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from ChaosSolutions.com (dt151nf4.tampabay.rr.com [24.92.197.244]) by tas21-atm.tampabay.rr.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8+RoadRunner) with SMTP id JAA14704 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 09:59:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tampabay.rr.com by chaossolutions.com with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP6i.R) for ; Tue, 04 May 1999 10:07:05 -0400 Message-ID: <372EF790.48705528@tampabay.rr.com> Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 09:35:12 -0400 From: Spamoff X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06C-Caldera [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Packages - how do you use therm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Return-Path: Spambait@tampabay.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello :) I've been going around in circles with these and am getting nowhere depsite having Greg's book and looking at the web site. 1) Can someone pleasqe expalin to me, succinctly, how you use packages after you have installed them using /stand/sysinstall OR pkg_add. I've done it both ways, I searched for their location. I've tried to read the files present and failed pretty much. Packages are supposed to be binary from what I understand, and ports are src that you build ??? 2) What's the advantage, if any, of using the ports ? I'm sure you can change locations but what else ? Regards...Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message