Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:52:38 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, Zach Barnett <zpb@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Packages and Ports [pkg vs portupgrade? taken off-list] Message-ID: <20020401035238.BDCFCBB39@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020331223956.D64848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020331223956.D64848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Sunday 31 March 2002 10:42 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote: | On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: | > PL> [1] Where do you run "build patch" (i.e. cd to which dir first)? | > PL> [2] What if you type "which build" and it is not found? That would be normal . . . it's just my brain that needs updating. | > You run "make patch", and you do it in /usr/ports/<category>/<port>. | > <mike | > -- | > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ | > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more | > information. | | I sort of figured that after I posted, since make and build seem to become | more and more interchangeable. Is there a recursive flag to "make?" Does | portupgrade (which can work(s) on the entire /usr/ports/ tree I understand) | have a flag to run all the make install and make patch etc commands once | all port files have been updated? Sorry, I'm in the habit of using "build" as the verb for what the "make" command does and sometimes when I get ahead of myself I say to "build -something" when in fact the command to "build" a program is called "make." Sort of like saying to "list" a file even tough "ls" is the command, or "delete" a file even though "rm" is the command. | | Last question, an after-thought really: Are "beta" vs "final" relevant? -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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