Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:07:01 -0700 From: "fbsd" <fbsd@wbs-inc.com> To: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports information & removal Message-ID: <01c101c0ae3b$87079b20$0200fea9@infowest.com> References: <000401c0ae4d$a67823a0$04036b83@terminal4>
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4 - ports and packages are related but different. FreeBSD has a package system and there are many popular packages on the FreeBSD CDROM. The difference is that packages come pre-compiled - ports come as source that must be compiled. 3 - When you do 'make' on a port that has dependancies it automatically fetches, builds and installs the dependancy. If you watch closely you can see that it is doing this. 2 - go to the directory in the ports tree for the port you want to uninstall and type 'make deinstall'. There are other commands to reclaim the disk space if you want to really clean things out. see 'man ports'. 1 - When ports are installed they register in the package management system. pkg_info will give you information about installed packages including ports. I don't know how to distinguish which packages were installed as ports and which as packages other than looking in /usr/ports/distfiles for the tarball or in the work directory for that port in the ports tree, but these will not tell you anything if the port has been cleaned with 'make clean' and 'make distclean' after installation. ----- Original Message ----- From: Faisal Gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:03 PM Subject: ports information & removal > 1 How can we see which ports are install in our system ? > 2 how can we remove selected ? > 3 what does the install program show if it encounter any dependicies problem > ? > 4 why we call these ports why not pakages like other os ? > > hope you answer them all > thanks > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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