From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 7:39:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EE114C17 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 07:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11gqiG-000ONA-00; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:39:36 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA98126; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:39:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:39:35 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Dan Nelson Cc: "Francis J. Bruening" , freebsd Subject: Re: 2 questions about using the ports collection In-Reply-To: <19991028093416.C68579@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: >sysinstall installs packages (precompiled ports), not ports. Depending So, there is no shortcut to installing ports? I use ppp then go to the directory and do the make, make install commands, right? For some reason, i thought ports could be installed via sysinstall. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message