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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:25:52 -0500
From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Questions about packages and ports
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On 6/27/05, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> wrote:
> I like to use the pkg_add -r feature of FreeBSD, however I have run into
> a problem where the ports have a more current version of the app then
> the package of the same app.
>=20
> It seems the ports collection is updated more then the package
> collection is this true?

Yes
>=20
> Is the maintainer of a package and a port the same person?  Are they
> responsible for updating the package and the port?

Yes and No
>=20
> Packages will download dependencys required by the app does the ports do
> this as well?

Yes

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On a similar note can someone remind me how to set the remote package
site for pkg_add and portupgrade -P? I remember it had something to do
with setenv but don't remember the variable it uses and I've never
used the portupgrade -P option before.