From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 22 02:30:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15947 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 02:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from violet.csi.cam.ac.uk (violet.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15701 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 02:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.212.250]) by violet.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0yco6x-0006eC-00; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:27:35 +0100 Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:27:36 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: Malartre cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why installing ports on a computer? In-Reply-To: <3564DE7A.3075FC44@aei.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I was thinking to that: ports are changing every week, if not often. > Well, like ports need internet to be usefull, why installing them on the > computer? > With FTP or Lynx, you can go on FreeBSD.org and get the last ports. > In both way, you need internet but in the second way, you do not waste > space and dont download old apps. Do ftp.*.freebsd.org support NFS mounting? If they do (or were adjusted so that they did), then when necessary it would presumably be possible to NFS mount the latest set of ports over /usr/ports. Since the installation information is kept in /var/db/pkg or somewhere, it wouldn't then matter if the user tried to remove the port without being NFS mounted. And the user could still mount ports if not NFS mounted in the same way as before (i.e. via ftp as normal or from CD-ROM). ------------- What is the difference between packages and ports, and why doesn't /stand/sysinstall support port installation? (Would it be useful if such and option were added?) Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message