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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:05:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "devnull@plugthebox.net" To: David Stanford In-Reply-To: References: <1138124395.3877.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-E0wMcqaOEyP5K5VKEZie" Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:28:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1138138130.3877.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports 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, 24 Jan 2006 21:29:36 -0000 --=-E0wMcqaOEyP5K5VKEZie Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to everybody, i'll check it out -- devnull@plugthebox.net --=-E0wMcqaOEyP5K5VKEZie Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message - Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: X-Original-To: devnull@plugthebox.net Delivered-To: devnull@plugthebox.net Received: from anthrax.plugthebox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anthrax.plugthebox.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96867CC06B for ; 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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:44:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D3943D45 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:44:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so35893uge for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:44:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=gml1UoP5HppqouOBdaxDSkDi948U0LAZkfczjYlpIv3uuin1WYdDp+sOX+YBqKpDJs/hVDOe90cS0LPTywuhfaGO2x/bKsDrAc3W5riPXCZdV2JBIu4bM4CgdPQjv8vRenELXhUHAFomrBEq+6hG1Frevl6lUd20bc0nlDM5Fzk= Received: by 10.66.251.2 with SMTP id y2mr129445ugh; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.248.12 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:17:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:17:25 -0500 From: David Stanford To: "devnull@plugthebox.net" In-Reply-To: <1138124395.3877.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1138124395.3877.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports 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: , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Errors-To: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The traditional way is to use CVSup, but I prefer portsnap. -David On 1/24/06, devnull@plugthebox.net wrote: > > Hello, > I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of > the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any > package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, > How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? > > thanks, > Sincerely, > -- > devnull@plugthebox.net > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=-E0wMcqaOEyP5K5VKEZie--