From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 13:50:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666E937B414 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8NKkGp06157; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:46:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BAE4B4A.1670903C@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:51:22 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PetBuilder Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which Ports are what References: <000f01c14469$9a0a0f90$0100a8c0@home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 PetBuilder wrote: > > Durring the install, I chose to install the ports collection. Later during > the install it asked me if I want to install a peticular port now. > I looked at all the files and could not identify any of them. Is there a > list somewhere that tells you which file name is what? I guarantee that you'll get better responses if you take some time to phrase your question better and include some details. I read this thing over about twelve times, and I'm only guessing that I understand what you're asking. If you're asking how to figure out which port does what, the easiest way is to surf through the port information at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ If you're curious about what's installed and so forth, /var/db/pkg contains a subdirectory for each installed package, there are files in there with a list of all files installed, as well as descriptions. (all simple ASCII text files) You may want to take the time to read the handbook section so you understand the difference between ports and packages, as it appears to me that you're getting the two confused: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html I hope I've answered your question. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message