From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 05:46:50 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 E680416A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:46:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C8843D49 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:46:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D07C60DB; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:46:50 -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 63458-05; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:46:47 -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 A6C3560D4; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:46:47 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <422A997B.8010607@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:47:39 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4c90b77205030521345f402a59@mail.gmail.com> <422A98B7.3000609@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <422A98B7.3000609@makeworld.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: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh 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 05:46:51 -0000 Chris wrote: > 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. > > I need to correct a line, "It's NOT meant to be the Unix version of Windows." -- Best regards, Chris Real programmers don't grumble about the disadvantages of Cobol when they don't know any other language.