[nycbug-talk] noob questions

[Marc Spitzer]

On Sun, 02 May 2004 18:26:24 -0400
Tilly <tilly at serversunited.com> wrote:

> Hey
> 
> Yea i see a lot of similiarities between ports and ports. But with
> portage all i needed to do was emerge (package name) with out going
> into the directory was located and i could do emerge sync which will
> update portage. With ports i need to go into the directory where the
> port is actually located and in some cases i need to get more ports to
> solve the dependency because the port is not on the machine. It is
> kind of annoying sometimes.

look into portupgrade

marc

> 
> Tilly
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <pete at nomadlogic.org>
> To: "Tilly" <tilly at serversunited.com>
> Cc: <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 6:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] noob questions
> 
> 
> > 
> > > Hey
> > >
> > > Is their something like apt, emerge, for ports.
> > 
> > my understanding of emerge and gentoo's portage system was to bring
> > a ports like system to GNU/Linux.  so it's likely most of the
> > behaviour you are used to from portage is avail in ports.  if you
> > want a more apt like system you want to read the man page for
> > pkg_add.
> > 
> > hope this get's you pointed in the right direction.
> > 
> > -pete
> > 
> > 
> > ~~~oO00Oo~~~
> > Pete Wright
> > email:  pete at nomadlogic.org
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> > 
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