From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 17:17:53 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 CDF4616A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:17:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A507343D66 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:17:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E936B62C887; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:17:50 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09119-09; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:17:50 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C2F62C877; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:17:50 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 392833F08D; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:17:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104733B9CB; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:17:48 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:17:48 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Robert Slade In-Reply-To: <1137487746.12144.34.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Message-ID: <20060117131553.B28752@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> <1137487746.12144.34.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" 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 17:17:53 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Robert Slade wrote: > 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. One word: PHPlib I have a client that has a Linux license for PHPlib, and from talking to the PHPlib folk, they won't convert the license to a FreeBSD one ... rather then send the client off to a Linux hosting company, I'm *trying* to accommodate their requirement on a FreeBSD platform ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664