[H-GEN] package management systems.

[Ian Pulsford]

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Sarah Walters wrote:

> I switched to FreeBSD a few months ago, and this was one of the major
> reasons why. I LOVE the ports system. Installing a package (as long as
> you want the latest version that has been built on freebsd) works like
> this (eg is cyrus-imapd2, since I did that recently).
> 
> cd /usr/ports/mail/cyrus-imapd2
> make all install

I do "make package" because FreeBSD builds, installs the software then
makes a package for me that I can put on another box.  That's how easy
it is to make a package (ie. prebuilt port like an rpm) on FreeBSD.


Ian

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