Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:17:25 -0500 From: David Stanford <dthomas53@gmail.com> To: "devnull@plugthebox.net" <devnull@plugthebox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports Message-ID: <f2c91f770601241017s4d5c094eifc1c11f84c01044c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1138124395.3877.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1138124395.3877.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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The traditional way is to use CVSup<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html>= , but I prefer portsnap. <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html>; -David On 1/24/06, devnull@plugthebox.net <devnull@plugthebox.net> wrote: > > Hello, > I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of > the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any > package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, > How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? > > thanks, > Sincerely, > -- > devnull@plugthebox.net <devnull@plugthebox.net> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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