From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 11:40:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A265D15352 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:40:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA16889; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:40:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38861329.29E19FD6@math.udel.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:40:25 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: 8 BSD Qs Subject: Re: Newbie Q: Packages or Ports? References: <003b01bf62b0$2c4eef80$3301a8c0@baffle.ias.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Packages are pre-compiled binaries and supporting files squashed into a .tgz file. The /stand/sysinstall installs the files in the proper place and updates the package database. Ports are Makefiles and supporting files that are used to automatically grab the source from somewhere and build it. The package database is also updated once you 'make install' the port. The ports are usually better because they get updated frequently. The packages, as far as I know, only get built for a RELEASE of FreeBSD. Michael Rothenberg wrote: > I read about a problem going through packages and /stand/sysinstall and the > reply was go try it through the ports collection. So far I have installed 2 > things from ports and not a thing from packages.... what is the difference > between them? Is one better then the other? > > Enjoy! > > -Michael > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message