From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 13:24:24 2005 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 58C5916A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:24:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9506B43D2F for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:24:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8B4C6AC2F for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:24:22 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: OepvTjOVHxeCg53FQLvC4w 1112102660 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-71-22.access.as9105.com [80.41.71.22]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D551825599 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:24:20 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:24:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503291424.21031.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean" 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: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:24:24 -0000 On Tuesday 29 March 2005 04:27, well sun wrote: > thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile under > /usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade. > > I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and "make > install". > > That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the > "make install" or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current directory. > Is it correct? > Could I make the default directory from 5.3-release to 6.0-current by > change one configuration file? If I want to override the default > fetching site of "pkg_add" command by some faster sites, how can I do? by and large, speed should not be the prime reason for choosing a package server. The default FreeBSD package collection often lags the ports collection considerably. Many packages are only updated during FreeBSD releases, some not even then. For KDE you are better-off using the "fruit-salad" servers, you will find a link here: http://freebsd.kde.org/instructions.php#kde-from-packages However, if you have a reasonably up-to-date machine I'd stick to ports; and use portupgrade or portmanager to maintain them.