Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 07:26:12 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com> To: Jordan Michaels <jordan@viviotech.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.10 and finding dependant packages Message-ID: <bc5b638505010505269e33e89@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41D9CE4C.4080306@viviotech.net> References: <41D9C7BC.2050309@bouncebk.com> <41D9CE4C.4080306@viviotech.net>
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:59:24 -0800, Jordan Michaels <jordan@viviotech.net> wrote: > So, my questions is simple: What do I need to do to figure out what > packages require apache to be installed? I've worked with SuSE's YAST > tool and RPM's (and tools that manage RPM's... like YAST), but what's > the BSD way to go about this? You can manage software quite well with the ports collection. This is a good place to get an idea of how packages and ports differ, and how to use them. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Then you can use portupgrade to keep your installed ports and dependencies up-to-date. It'll save you some headache. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate
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