From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 01:48:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B1516A401 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:48:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B4613C48D for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 19481 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2007 12:48:56 +1100 Received: from 203-217-48-136.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.217.48.136) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 4 Mar 2007 12:48:56 +1100 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:48:52 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: Erik Osterholm , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070304124852.0946ef57@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070302045718.GA59913@idoru.cepheid.org> References: <20070301143621.36433.qmail@web35204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45E726B6.4050507@schrodinger.com> <20070302085541.602eb85f@localhost> <20070302045718.GA59913@idoru.cepheid.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd 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: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:48:58 -0000 On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:57:18 -0600 Erik Osterholm wrote: > No binary packages? Could have fooled me. > > From: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#ebuilds > > "For full ISO releases, we create a full suite of binary packages in > an enhanced .tbz2 format, which is .tar.bz2 compatible with > meta-information attached to the end of the file. These can be used to > install a working (though not fully optimized) version of the package > quickly and efficiently." Ah, what do you know :) thanks for making me a little bit less ignorant :) cheers! _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it." George Bernard Shaw I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.