Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:27:36 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why installing ports on a computer? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980522101932.273C-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3564DE7A.3075FC44@aei.ca>
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> I was thinking to that: ports are changing every week, if not often. > Well, like ports need internet to be usefull, why installing them on the > computer? > With FTP or Lynx, you can go on FreeBSD.org and get the last ports. > In both way, you need internet but in the second way, you do not waste > space and dont download old apps. Do ftp.*.freebsd.org support NFS mounting? If they do (or were adjusted so that they did), then when necessary it would presumably be possible to NFS mount the latest set of ports over /usr/ports. Since the installation information is kept in /var/db/pkg or somewhere, it wouldn't then matter if the user tried to remove the port without being NFS mounted. And the user could still mount ports if not NFS mounted in the same way as before (i.e. via ftp as normal or from CD-ROM). ------------- What is the difference between packages and ports, and why doesn't /stand/sysinstall support port installation? (Would it be useful if such and option were added?) Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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