Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:15:04 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Martin Novak <mnovak@stap.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports collection Message-ID: <20000905.16150400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <01C01758.1DBC1440.mnovak@stap.cz> References: <01C01758.1DBC1440.mnovak@stap.cz>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/5/00, 3:40:40 PM, Martin Novak <mnovak@stap.cz> wrote regarding FreeBSD ports collection: > Could you please explain that term to me? Does it mean it is a collection of applications, running under FreeBSD? > Thanks a lot > Martin Dear Martin Novak, actually, they are more like "recipes" through which the system fetches the relevant tarballs, extracts them, configures them, builds them and ... installs them. More info is found in ports(7) and in http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports.html Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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