From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 17: 1:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3756D37B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:01:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA29002; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 02:01:34 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <049701c0ae7d$d72d7740$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: <01031149@3web.net> Cc: References: <86611571@toto.iv> <15025.48826.732802.344297@guru.mired.org> <20010316080254.A86901@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Subject: Re: ports information & removal Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 02:00:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > While on the subject of packages/ports, is the RPM methodology analogous > to FBSD's port or package system? Tia... You can get both sources and binaries in RPM-format. The normal way for most modern distributions seems to be spreading binaries. I think there would be the possibility with some post-install scripts to automatically start compilation and installation for source RPMs; but Linux people downloading source tarballs, tend to do this by hand. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message