Date: 24 Jan 2005 12:43:00 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port update problem - newbie Message-ID: <443bwqsoyj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050124131123.34751.qmail@web51701.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050124131123.34751.qmail@web51701.mail.yahoo.com>
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saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com> writes: > I am also looking for package management. I know that > a package can be installed using 'pkg_add -r > sendmail'. But how to keep update these packages like > ports? Use portupgrade for that too; it knows how to deal with ports or packages. > I need to choose either ports or packages. Nonsense. In fact, once you have installed them, it is *very* hard to *tell* whether a program was installed from a port or a package. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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