From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 17: 2:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47EDD37B970 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:02:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12SUs3-0001Fw-00; Wed, 08 Mar 2000 03:02:39 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Jay Oliver" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to manage "packages" after installation, that were installed DURING installation In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:37:38 EST." <005d01bf8885$bf4fa900$2260e4d0@CHAOS> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 03:02:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4831.952477359@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:37:38 EST, "Jay Oliver" wrote: > I realize this is going to sound like a stupid question, but how do you > manage "packages" (ports?) First off, check out the pkg_version(8) manual page if it exists on your system. If not, update to a recent version of FreeBSD. It's a very helpful utility. > but a majority of things that ARE available in the ports section > (TCL, XFree86, etc), if you choose to install these as part of the > actual installation process, you have no way to be dealing with them > afterwards, Could you give us examples of packages which you elected to install from sysinstall that do not show up with either pkg_version(8) or the following command: ls /var/db/pkg ? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message