From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 05:43:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80FE16A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:43:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406EB43D3F for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:43:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539AD60DB; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:43:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68862-03; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:43:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B0960D4; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:43:31 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <422A98B7.3000609@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:44:23 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh References: <4c90b77205030521345f402a59@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4c90b77205030521345f402a59@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating binary packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 05:43:38 -0000 Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote: > Hi threre, > Is there any way on freebsd to update ports and base in a binary way, > like they do in linux? > Someway other than CVSUp or portupdate ! > Best Regards, > Soheil Hassas Yeganeh You are free to use freebsdupdate (updates the system - assuming you have never compiled the src tree). And you are free to use pkg_add and pkg_delete. The ports tree is just that, app that are NOT in binary format. These are apps you build and update yourself. FreeBSD isn't designed like Linux. It's meant to be the Unix version of Windows. If you want that type of format, then reconsider staying with whatever distro of Linux you had. No offense of course, you just need to realize that FreeBSD (or any ofter BSD) isnt made to look like, feel like, smell like, taste like, act like ANY Linux distro. -- Best regards, Chris History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.