From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 13:34:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wintermute.at.org (wintermute.at.org [64.69.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12FC37B403 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sellis@intergate.ca) Received: from barney.intergate.ca (bambam [216.232.225.42]) by wintermute.at.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7TDotA15167 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK) for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:50:57 GMT Received: (from sellis@localhost) by barney.intergate.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7TKeqG01110 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:40:52 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:40:52 -0700 From: Sean Ellis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: packages ; best practices Message-ID: <20010829134052.B1083@telus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have some questions surrounding the package/port system. I am building up a system and I expect that I will want to be compiling up applications from source in order to wind up with exactly what I am after. I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. Can I get details of software that is already present ie. the options that a particular piece was compiled with? What if I want to replace something, ie. openssl is present from the installation, are there any logs describing what is on board and where? And how about removing software not listed in /var/db/pkg; will this be a manual process of hunting it all down; I'm planning on installing new items to /usr/local. Lots of minor questions around the same issue here. Perhaps the port system is flexible enough that I can avoid compiling from scratch? There's another one. Sorry if this has already been done to death. I'm raring to get this machine populated. Any input or links appreciated, tia, -- Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message