Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:28:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kevin Liquori <kliquori@ix.netcom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports and Packages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415192656.5749H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804160041.TAA15494@dfw-ix12.ix.netcom.com>
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Kevin Liquori wrote: > What's the difference between ports and packages? I saw the information on > the website but I'm still a bit confused. Are ports full versions of > programs or do they just convert them for FreeBSD use? Ports are basically sets of patches to the source distributions for their respective programs, guled together with a Makefile. Packages are simply .tar.gz archives of built ports. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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