From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 08:49:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E886816A427 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:49:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F383D43D46 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:49:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 13124 invoked by uid 510); 17 Jan 2006 08:49:08 +0000 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87/1146. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.8/5.0):. Processed in 1.36348 secs); 17 Jan 2006 08:49:08 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.8/5.0):. Processed in 1.36348 secs Process 13117) Received: from mail.bathnetworks.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 17 Jan 2006 08:49:06 +0000 From: Robert Slade To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: References: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1137487746.12144.34.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:49:06 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:49:04 -0000 On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 08:36, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to > >> install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do > >> as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and > >> downloading them ... > >> baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? > >> thanks ... > >> ---- > >> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http:// > >> www.hub.org) > >> Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy > >> ICQ: 7615664 > >> > > look at the end of rpm man page, there is a section INSTALL AND > > UPGRADE OPTIONS. > > Concerning other tools, the poor experience I have with RH showed > > me that rpm is a great tool. Maybe you may try yum, which, iirc, is > > a GUI for rpm. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Gregory > > Actually yum's a means for updating that's meant to replace the > Redhat Network Tool or whatever it was called back in RH9.0 and RHE, > which comes as primarily a command line tool I thought. As far as I > know is only available for Fedora-a product primarily made for > desktop users made by Redhat. > -Garrett To clear up a couple of points: YUM is a Redhat tool but is a command line one. It works on all Redhat derived systems not just Fedora. BTW Fedora is not made by Redhat but is sponsored by them - they use it as a test platform. What I don't understand why the OP is installing Linux Apachie2 from rpms when there is a perfectly good port for BSD which handles the dependencies and the different locations of files, scripts etc. Rob