From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 18:40:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1962E14EE8 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 18:40:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 18287 invoked from network); 29 Oct 1999 01:40:43 -0000 Received: from userbk68.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.76) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 1999 01:40:43 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id CAA01114; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:40:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:40:38 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: J McKitrick Cc: Dan Nelson , "Francis J. Bruening" , freebsd Subject: Re: 2 questions about using the ports collection Message-ID: <19991029024038.B323@marder-1> References: <19991028093416.C68579@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:39:35PM +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > 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. > That just installs the /usr/ports tree (i.e. the Makefiles etc.) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message