From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 18:27:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA09080 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 18:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.iupui.edu (root@felix.iupui.edu [134.68.45.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA09072 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 18:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona (x2s5p9.dialin.iupui.edu [134.68.249.68]) by felix.iupui.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA01541 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 20:26:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:26:43 -0500 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960520203115.002f4f78@felix.iupui.edu> X-Sender: jrclark@felix.iupui.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: John Clark Subject: Ports Collection -- up-to-date Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, It is not at all obvious how the ports collection works. I have read the handbook chapter several times, and I am battled at how the whole process works. I understand the ports collection to be a collection of software tweaked to run with FreeBSD. I ftp'ed to "ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles" and picked-up apache_1.0.5.tar.gz. I unpacked the file into /usr/ports (I had to make the "ports" directory). Upon looking through the Makefile, I saw that it was configured for Sun OS. This does not seem very "tweaked" to me. I must be missing something, I can download apache myself (from apache) and do the manual configuration. I was lead to believe that someone had already config'ed the files to run under FreeBSD, I must be missing something. Can someone fill me in on how to use the ports collection? --John [jrclark@indy.net]