From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 22 21:35:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.shadow.net (mail.shadow.net [204.177.71.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EE114D28 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reason@shadow.net) Received: from ararat.mygus.com (mail@mch.shadow.net [207.17.59.250]) by mail.shadow.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01216 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 00:37:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ararat ident=vladik) by ararat.mygus.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG id 15UE4c-0002aK-00; Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:07:34 -0400 From: Vladislav To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: [Q] packaging system Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:48:46 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <199910211358.GAA94920@pau-amma.whistle.com> <01080714483902.00729@ararat> <01080714514503.00729@ararat> In-Reply-To: <01080714514503.00729@ararat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080717073307.00729@ararat> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have read that FreeBSD by March of '99 will have a demo of a new packaging system that should be great This is a quote from From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:28:52 -0800 [snip....] FreeBSD is already working on a new packaging system using paid contractors so that it actually happens this time. We hope to have a technology demonstrator by March of next year; I won't say too much about it except to say that it's considerably more ambitious than any of the existing (Linux, *BSD) packaging systems and does a better job, IMHO, of handling both the front-end and security issues [snip...] I found it in one of the mailing list archives for OpenBSD. The reason I am asking this is because I have tried to install the some of the BSD ports (after reading the handbook, of course) and noticed that I can either retreive the source from internet (using make install in the specific packages tree) or use pkg_add on the binary packages from CD 3 (rel 3-3). But I think those tools do not check what other dependencies (packages) are missing and then download what is needed precompiled from internet; or, if you unstall something it would install the dependencies. (I was using apt-get on Debian Linux). So I am thinking that may be FreeBSD has other packaging system that I am not using and may be I just need to enable it somehow? (I did search freeBSD web site regarding this buy did not find any specific links) thanks in advance for any info, Vladislav P.S. I appologize for the date/time on my emails, my BIOS cannot keep the time straight (or the clock battery is dying ....) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message