From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 14:10:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CAB537B41A for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267B2BD20; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01963; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:10:21 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAUMAjw94979; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Darren Crotchett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Tsalicoglou, Isaak" Subject: Re: *NIX Selection References: <786CB48E65ABC74CA1E25577B096357F3FE7F6@EXSTUD2.d.ethz.ch> <20011130181148.C34D837B419@hub.freebsd.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 30 Nov 2001 14:10:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011130181148.C34D837B419@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Crotchett writes: > ... I'm still > trying to figure out the difference between the ports and the packages In short, a package is a pre-built, pre-compiled port; a binary port. They both install binaries to the same places and those get entered into the same database (/var/db/pkg/) and may be manipulated with the same "pkg" utilities. The ports allow you to customize the build process too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message