Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:12:39 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/Packages and release engineering Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502141704560.91181@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <loom.20150215T001703-97@post.gmane.org> References: <54DF89BE.6010005@complete.org> <54DFA962.2010509@infracaninophile.co.uk> <loom.20150215T001703-97@post.gmane.org>
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On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, John Goerzen wrote: > I actually expect to use pkg(8) rather than ports almost all of the time. > So it sounds nice that pkg(8) can do this, but I am confused about the > relation between ports and pkg. Building a port produces a package, or prebuilt binary packages can be automatically downloaded and installed. The pkg system handles and tracks this. > I see some rather contradictory information out there, and wonder if > this changed in FreeBSD 9 or 10? I see some people saying that a > person always needs to tell the ports system to register with pkg, but > then I don't see anything in the Handbook saying to do that these > days. This might help: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pkg.html
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