From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 13:20:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.shore.net (polaris.shore.net [207.244.124.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4819514A09 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from intelligent.subnet.shore.net (baffle) [209.58.134.62] by polaris.shore.net with smtp (Exim) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 12B2X3-0001cU-00; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:20:49 -0500 Message-ID: <005501bf62c3$5f9e0700$3301a8c0@baffle.ias.com> Reply-To: "Michael Rothenberg" From: "Michael Rothenberg" To: "8 BSD Qs" Subject: Re: Newbie Q: Packages or Ports? Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:22:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Great! Thanks for the answer to all who replied. Have a nice day. -m -----Original Message----- From: Peter Schwenk To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: 8 BSD Qs Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:43 PM Subject: Re: Newbie Q: Packages or Ports? |Packages are pre-compiled binaries and supporting files squashed into a .tgz |file. The /stand/sysinstall installs the files in the proper place and |updates the package database. Ports are Makefiles and supporting files that |are used to automatically grab the source from somewhere and build it. The |package database is also updated once you 'make install' the port. The ports |are usually better because they get updated frequently. The packages, as far |as I know, only get built for a RELEASE of FreeBSD. | |Michael Rothenberg wrote: | |> I read about a problem going through packages and /stand/sysinstall and the |> reply was go try it through the ports collection. So far I have installed 2 |> things from ports and not a thing from packages.... what is the difference |> between them? Is one better then the other? |> |> Enjoy! |> |> -Michael |> |> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org |> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | |-- |PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator |Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware |schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! | | | | | |To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org |with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message