From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 4:56: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A024037B402 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 04:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4171E195; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:55:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:55:42 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Arn=E1iz?= Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports Message-ID: <20010115135542.A44864@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Arn=E1iz?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <004601c07ee0$45a095e0$4200a8c0@jesus> <20010115125818.B44350@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> <00b501c07eec$d1dbd2c0$4200a8c0@jesus> <20010115132200.D44350@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> <00f401c07eef$5bae3180$4200a8c0@jesus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00f401c07eef$5bae3180$4200a8c0@jesus>; from arnaiz@encomix.es on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:33:23PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I do this and I see it tries to get the package from a list of Internet ftp sites. yes, the original sourcefile. a port is a "I have the source-code and want to compile it on this system", a package is a pre-compiled thingie. Insert the cdrom, run /stand/sysinstall and choose configure -> packages and you'll be happy. > Edwin... if people spend a little more time to format the email, life would be great. -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message