From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 23:24: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe2.dyndns.org (adsl-63-192-101-8.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.192.101.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331E937B40B for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@absinthe2.dyndns.org) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe2.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7O6O1w02533; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:24:00 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: jim flournoy Cc: satlug@satlug.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1st FreeBSD ports install Message-ID: <20010823232400.B2412@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> References: <20010824060658.38468.qmail@web20202.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010824060658.38468.qmail@web20202.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdspaceman@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:58PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:58PM -0700, jim flournoy wrote: > I would like to ask a couple questions about using > ports. I've been downloading PostgreSQL7 for the last > hour or so.. all seems to be going well. I just cd'ed > to /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7 then typed make. > Away it went. Anyway, do I need to do make build, or > make install, or make clean? Thanks.. > > Also, I know debian linux has a 'apt-getupdate' > feature to get the latest version. Can anyone tell me > if FreeBSD have anything similar? Maybe another port? make && make install If you want to save disk space: make && make install && make clean If you want to save more disk space: make && make install && make distclean (the last one deletes the dowload, so don't do it unless you don't mind possibly having to redownload the distfile) -- Fred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message