Do I want to switch to the new pkg(8) format?

[Jon Radel]

On 12/26/14 6:11 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2014, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 1. Upgrading ports is not a "package management" operation.
>
> It is.  A port is compiled and a package created from it.  The old 
> package is deleted and the new package installed.
>
Or as I like to think of the big divide, you have a choice between:

1)  Compiling a port to produce a package, possibly with other than 
default options and other localization, or

2)  Download a package that was compiled by somebody else from the port 
using the defaults.

As an aside, the fact that making a port results in a package is 
somewhat more visible in OpenBSD; in FreeBSD the level of automation 
that "just works" is rather amazing IMHO.

--Jon Radel
jon at radel.com

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3931 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20141226/ef30cbf2/attachment.bin>