From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 7:37: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9D614D46 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 07:37:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA69287; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:34:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:34:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: J McKitrick Cc: "Francis J. Bruening" , freebsd Subject: Re: 2 questions about using the ports collection Message-ID: <19991028093416.C68579@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:47:04PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 28), J McKitrick said: > I have a question as well... why do i sometimes see a port listed on the > website in the ports collection, but when i use sysinstall and try a ports > ftp installation, sometimes that port doesn't appear? sysinstall installs packages (precompiled ports), not ports. Depending on licensing restrictions, source distribution may be allowed where binary distribution isn't, or cdrom distribution may be prohibited, or there may be crypto restrictions, or or.. lots of reasons. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message