From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 30 05:47:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27724 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 05:47:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27718 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 05:47:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14855; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:47:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:47:01 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens To: nunnari cc: stable Subject: Re: packages vs ports ?? In-Reply-To: <3662A039.227E53CB@agie.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The best forum is . A package is a precompiled binary package, usually downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org though of course anyone is free to create packages. They are found (if I recall correctly) at . Their major downside is that oft-times they are compiled requiring X or (when there was a problem recently, this was corrected) Kerberos, for example; or they just may not be optimized for your configuration. They do save time, though, and are added with the pkg_add command (it even takes a URL as a parameter if you want to fetch and install all in one step!) The ports, I think, are more popular -- they can download (from the original package site or with a fallback on ftp.freebsd.org), configure, compile, and install all in one step; and you can interrupt the process to make source changes or what not. There is more information on those in the FreeBSD Handbook at , but usually you just do cd /usr/ports/category/name;make install. :) On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, nunnari wrote: :Thanks to all who answered my previous post on g++ : :After reading a bit of doc, I'm still not sure I understand what :the difference between ports and packages is. : :May it be that packages are executables while ports are still :to be built? : :Also which is the best forum for questions? I don't mean to :annoy anybody by posting here... : :Best regards. : :Roberto Nunnari :WWW : http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/noonlights/ : : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message : Matt Behrens | If only I could learn Japanese and get my Servant of Karen Behrens | hands on all 200 Sailor Moon episodes and Engineer, Nameless IRC Network | all the movies, I think my life would I eat Penguins for breakfast. | finally be complete. . . . . . . . . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message