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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:46:54 -0600
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Subject: Re: Port Colection
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Thanks, I see now some of the advantages to the port collection.

Kevin Oberman wrote:

>>Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 15:54:06 -0600
>>From: Justin L Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com>
>>Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>>
>>no i'm talking doing a
>>pkg_add -r mc
>>or a
>>pkg_add -r samba
>>but matt has a good point about the instruction set, do you have to edit 
>>the port or can it tell what set to use (486, 586, 686)?
>>
> 
> You have to put your processor type into /etc/make.conf. Check
> /etc/defaults/make.conf for a list of possible values.
> 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
> 
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