From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 20 10:36:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF8437B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:36:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA44F8; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:41:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3A92B883.83028A81@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:33:39 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSD Blood Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How's the term 'Port' used? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org BSD Blood wrote: > > From 'The Complete FreeBSD' and the 'FreeBSD Handbook' I notice that 'port' > is used in a slightly different manner. 'FreeBSD Handbook' uses it to refer > to a software package?. 'The Complete FreeBSD' used it to refer to additinal > files needed to adapt a package to build on FreeBSD. So, obviously "install > a port" can have 2 meanings. Is a package and port used in the same manner? > Can anyone please clarify. Perhaps the Handbook needs to be clarified. A port is that collection of files used to build software on FreeBSD. A package is a prebuilt binary created using the ports system. Sometimes people use the shortcut of referring to both as a "port". David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message