Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:53:10 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what am I running? (early-november snapshot) Message-ID: <199512011753.KAA26243@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <9512011732.AA15784@gnu.mc.xerox.com> References: <199512010037.RAA23985@rocky.sri.MT.net> <9512011732.AA15784@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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> > > > Is there a newer version of gnu man you're aware of? > > > > > > yeah...1.4e -- It done for Linux, available on sunsite... > > > > Hmm, I guess we'll have to look into it. Do you have time to see if it > > would work under FreeBSD? > > > > I don't think you're really running 1.1 -- 1.1. didn't support compressed > man pages (I think). Support of compressed man pages was added by the FreeBSD project. > I tried to recompile on freebsd...the configuration is not my favorite > and it wants the gnu "helpers" (i.e. gtbl, geqn). > > On FreeBSD, I just saw tbl and eqn (are they different then the gnu > versions?) They are the GNU versions renamed to their normal names. That was done by CSRG so that the system looked and felt more 'normal'. > > > BTW -- is there a manifest for where all the sources are? > > > > > By a manifest I'm talking about a list of which files are where in > the distribution. > > Slackware comes with a MANIFEST file which lists the packages and whats > in them... Ahh, that's the major difference between BSD distributions and Linux distributions. FreeBSD is distributed as a 'complete' system, while Linux is distributed as a system which is put together piece by piece. The packages allow us to add (non-essential) pieces to the base system, but the base system is seen as a whole, and not as parts. The down-side to this is that the user of the system doesn't know what packages are used in the base system. > In freebsd, I just have bin.* > In src, I have all types of collections...(share,sys,subin,sgnu,sgames,setc) > Wouldn't a list of what is where be useful (I suppose I could make it...but > still it should be provided...) See above. All of the pieces are 'necessary' for a complete BSD system, so it isn't considered necessary to know where each piece came from. In the same manner as all of the commercial vendors you buy the system as a whole, and not as Linux+gcc_2.6.3+diffutil_2.4+cvs_1.3A.... You get 'FreeBSD 2.1' or 'SCO ODT3.0'. Nate
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