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=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
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