From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 9: 0:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBBD37B422 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA8GxWO18921; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:59:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:59:32 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: brain_damaged Cc: Subject: Re: port vs package In-Reply-To: <200111081149.AA4033151156@florida-wireless.com> Message-ID: <20011108085428.L867-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 8 Nov 2001, brain_damaged wrote: > Hello what is the differences between a PORT and a Package ? Is one > better than the other ? Seems alot of them are not uptodate with the > software on the home sites of that software. I assume cuz it was not > written for Fbsd so whoever "ported" it has a different version number > ? the ports system (/usr/ports/) is a simple way to fetch and build pieces of the software. assuming you update it, it will track, and update, the software you install from it. > What is the best way to install software ? depends on your preference. i prefer to use ports for most things, but since a few machines i run are rather.. old.. i occasionally use packages. > I have done a /stand/sysinstall but can not always find what I want > but yet if i go to the freebsd homepage and do a search I find it but > not thru the /stand/sysinstall. /stand/sysinstall is good for a few things, you're better off using pkg_add -r to grab the package and install it on the machine. /stand/sysinstall tend to look at the local cdrom drive first, unless you tell it to use a ftp site. hope this clears some things up, -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.. " To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message