From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 05:52:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 3A73516A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:52:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77AB243D48 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:52:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so42437uge for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:52:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=e4sO84KuJNtanarwMTpgwkjGQO8IDSB3nM/Jma0Vw4VzRbViuSotbBocb4UsNqDODahhvFAjM9AdK1N7WzakuKcBF03hyENn6Kxnv9MOIZue/FlZGwBTdF4hKJUUXkQyST+/suJaPVzp9NnNoXX7YWTzKKRUImOqCNhT68hw0DU= Received: by 10.48.217.14 with SMTP id p14mr415681nfg; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.216.4 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:52:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:52:53 -0500 From: Xn Nooby To: Kevin Kinsey In-Reply-To: <43D50934.2060501@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <43D327EA.7020902@daleco.biz> <43D50934.2060501@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Post-Install update steps? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:52:56 -0000 After having spent a lot time waiting for my ports to build, I'm getting interested in packages. Apparently there is not a package for every port. These commands fail: pkg_add -r xine pkg_add -r gqview while this one works pkg_add -r subversion Is there an easy way to tell what packages are available? I assume the available packages are a subset of the available ports, probably just the most popular ones. Or are they all supposed to be available? thanks! On 1/23/06, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > Xn Nooby wrote: > > > Hi Kevin, > > > > Thank your for the thoughtful reply, I will be going through it > > thoroughly later tonight. One thing that caught my eye was > > something I've never fully understood - the relationship between > > packages and source. I know some people use the precompiled > > packages, especially for big things like KDE and Gnome. If you > > use those packages, and you later rebuild your world - do those > > packages get compiled? It would seem like you could run in to > > conflicts if you had some software that was pre-compiled and > > others that were built from source. I try to always build from > > source to avoid such issues. Or perhaps you install te KDE > > package, but later want to build from source to utilize some > > optimnal compiler settings. > > > > Does FreeBSD rebuild packages when you try to rebuild "everything"? > > > > thanks! > > > > Rebuilding your 3rd party "ports/packages" is a seperate operation. > > If I remember your original mail, you got into that at the very bottom. > "make world" and friends only update the "base system". > > As to the "differences between packages and source", there > aren't many. If you have the ports tree installed, you can find > this out yourself --- cd into something, say /usr/ports/editors/nano, > and type "make package" as root. You'll do exactly what the > FreeBSD package building cluster does, only on a scale of one > instead of 14000+. > > Packages are pre-compiled ports. If you install a current set > of packages when you install FreeBSD, you can then use a > portupgrade-type tool to upgrade them. You can tell the tool > to compile fresh, or to simply fetch new (pre-built) packages. > It's up to you. > > Now, your last 2 sentences are insightful, and a reason to > use "ports" instead of packages after a machine is "up and > running". However, in installation, I'd see little wrong with > using pkg_add to get going more quickly, and then set the > box up to recompile stuff on nights or weekends.... > > KDK > > -- > Dr. Livingston? > Dr. Livingston I. Presume? > >