Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Ports FAQ is a great read Message-ID: <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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RE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html RE2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html This is a GREAT read, strongly recommended for newbies. One or two corrections though. The part that says "Note: You must be the root user to install ports" applies only if you don't edit the Makefil and specify a different install path. Also, the handbook could be a little clearer about options for users that do not want to install the entire ports tree, and instead want to cvsup one specific folder, such as /usr/ports/java/jdk (Note to self - wow! a "whereis" command?? running "make ; make install" can be shortened to just "make install" - cool!) One final suggestion for www.freebsd.org - I would like a command similar to "make search name=xxxxxx" that would attempt to match any package that can be "pkg_add"'ed from the ports collection. True, searching the ports yields lots of links, (Description, Sources, Changes, Download, etc) but it is difficult to figure out what's a port only and what can be pkg_add -r installed! The one thing I haven't learned yet is what "make install clean" does exactly and why "make" can take different commands in the first place. PS - RE2 is also an amazing read, kudo's to the fine authors!! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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