Ports/Packages and release engineering
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Feb 15 00:12:52 UTC 2015
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, John Goerzen wrote:
> I actually expect to use pkg(8) rather than ports almost all of the time.
> So it sounds nice that pkg(8) can do this, but I am confused about the
> relation between ports and pkg.
Building a port produces a package, or prebuilt binary packages can be
automatically downloaded and installed. The pkg system handles and
tracks this.
> I see some rather contradictory information out there, and wonder if
> this changed in FreeBSD 9 or 10? I see some people saying that a
> person always needs to tell the ports system to register with pkg, but
> then I don't see anything in the Handbook saying to do that these
> days.
This might help:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pkg.html
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