From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 12:36:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B19716A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BF043FBD for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:36:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HMV00M167W95H@smtp04.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:38:38 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9GJa7od005245; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:36:07 +0200 (CEST envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id h9GJa4Pr005244; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:36:04 +0200 (CEST envelope-from akruijff) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:36:04 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20031016165549.82952.qmail@web80407.mail.yahoo.com> To: Dinesh Nadarajah Message-id: <20031016193604.GA5147@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <20031016160355.GA15287@users.munk.nu> <20031016165549.82952.qmail@web80407.mail.yahoo.com> cc: Jez Hancock cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Howto find packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:36:14 -0000 On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:55:49AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I guess what FreeBSD needs is a good port of the apt system Should not > be difficult. It can let pkg_xxx do all the installing etc. Would be > cool if one existed :) > Packages should work normaly, but can give some trouble afther you update. There is a port called portupgrade which has the same goal as the Debian apt system. You are better of using this if you like to upgrade you installed packages. Packages however can stil be a problem. Debian handels packages better. Its likly that using packages isn't that high on the agenda since installing application by compiling isn't that hard to do with the ports system. i.e. cd /usr/port/www/mozilla; make install && make clean or portinstall www/mozilla -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/