From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 15:39:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962D637B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF1143E81 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:39:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CFF29073 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:39:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Ports FAQ is a great read Message-ID: <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG RE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html RE2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html This is a GREAT read, strongly recommended for newbies. One or two corrections though. The part that says "Note: You must be the root user to install ports" applies only if you don't edit the Makefil and specify a different install path. Also, the handbook could be a little clearer about options for users that do not want to install the entire ports tree, and instead want to cvsup one specific folder, such as /usr/ports/java/jdk (Note to self - wow! a "whereis" command?? running "make ; make install" can be shortened to just "make install" - cool!) One final suggestion for www.freebsd.org - I would like a command similar to "make search name=xxxxxx" that would attempt to match any package that can be "pkg_add"'ed from the ports collection. True, searching the ports yields lots of links, (Description, Sources, Changes, Download, etc) but it is difficult to figure out what's a port only and what can be pkg_add -r installed! The one thing I haven't learned yet is what "make install clean" does exactly and why "make" can take different commands in the first place. PS - RE2 is also an amazing read, kudo's to the fine authors!! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message