From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 8:15:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344DB37B423 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 08:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.78.139) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39AF9CE3000300B8; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:15:01 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:15:04 GMT Message-ID: <20000905.16150400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports collection To: Martin Novak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01C01758.1DBC1440.mnovak@stap.cz> References: <01C01758.1DBC1440.mnovak@stap.cz> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/5/00, 3:40:40 PM, Martin Novak wrote regarding=20 FreeBSD ports collection: > Could you please explain that term to me? Does it mean it is a=20 collection of applications, running under FreeBSD? > Thanks a lot > Martin Dear Martin Novak, actually, they are more like "recipes" through which the system=20 fetches the relevant tarballs, extracts them, configures them, builds=20 them and ... installs them. More info is found in ports(7) and in=20 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