From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 14:12:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 433E614D71 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:12:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.42] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id sa231262 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:10:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3890C2C8.3620069C@twave.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:12:24 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Taylor Cc: dbhost@brokersys.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > > > And lo and behold, I see the first link is broken! How nice. > > Also as to RPM's, a lot of the ports in FreeBSD use Redhat > > RPM's. > > I wouldn't call 40 of 3000 a lot (about 1.3%) have a dependency on rpm. > That's an overestimate of those that actually use rpm files to build the > port as I just counted the number of ports that came up w/ a "make search > key=rpm". As for actually grabbing rpms and installing them I believe > there are 5 only ports that do this: > > linux_devtools > linux_base > popt > xgammon > logrotate > > 5 out of 3000 is not "many" in my book! > > Brett Pardon me all to hell Dave. I should have said SOME of the ports in FreeBSD use Redhat RPM's. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message