Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:24:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why aren't all files in a Package? Message-ID: <20040208232404.GA22835@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040208150050.GE19831@alzatex.com> References: <20040208150050.GE19831@alzatex.com>
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--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:00:50AM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > Certain core files that come with freebsd don't seem to belong to any > package, one of them being zlib. I was trying to figure out what > version of zlib FreeBSD is using, but since it wasn't part of any > package, it was a little difficult, I had to edit libz.so and greped for > 1.1.4. Since I found that, I'm assuming that that's the correct > version, but I think a simple pkg_info -W should have answered that. The base system isn't distributed as packages. This is mostly for historical reasons, although it's not straightforward to make the change. Kris --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAJsUUWry0BWjoQKURAiXHAJ9iVOdYbiQ30L5Sm45T2d0/MoMZrACgmgnD 9Ehg6B46pcQetlqpdN7Nj3Q= =hhYF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--
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