From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 18:31:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from helium.singnet.com.sg (helium.singnet.com.sg [165.21.101.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0932537B7C4 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from theebh@magix.com.sg) Received: from wingate (ad202.166.41.212.magix.com.sg [202.166.41.212]) by helium.singnet.com.sg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA15253; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:31:41 +0800 (SGT) From: "Boon Hoo" To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: Subject: RE: Problem installing ports Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:35:56 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522013138B0@l04.research.kpn.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your reply again. > -----Original Message----- > From: Koster, K.J. [mailto:K.J.Koster@kpn.com] > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:47 AM > To: 'Boon Hoo' > Subject: RE: Problem installing ports > > > "ports" and "packages" are not the same thing. > > "ports" are preset build environments where all you have to call is "make > install" and the you box will fetch the sources(!) from any of the > predefined servers, unwraps them, patches them for freebsd. compiles them > and installs the program as a "package". > > "packages" are prebuild ports, where all you have to do is call "pkg_add > .tgz". > > To remove either of them use "pkg_delete ". > > You are not connected to the Internet: use packages from the > various cdroms. > I am connected to the Internet: I use ports because my link is fast enough > to download whatever I need. > From your explanation and by reading the handbook, i began to understand what's going on. So, packages would not provide any source codes as compared to ports, right? Then i guess compiling ports would be preferable to me. However, I suspect that the cd-rom that i burned from ISO image does not contain the ports' sources. What if, for e.g. i had installed apache+php, and there's a new version coming out. Can i just upgrade it by using the "new" port? TIA. Regards, Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message