Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:47:01 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> To: nunnari <roberto.nunnari@agie.ch> Cc: stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: packages vs ports ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811300842370.14841-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <3662A039.227E53CB@agie.ch>
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The best forum is <questions@freebsd.org>. 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 <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/>. 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 <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/>, 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 <matt@zigg.com> | 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
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