Re: When do binaries get removed?

2010-03-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/2010 04:16:29, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I have the current FreeBSD handbook but it does not seem to have the answer to the following question. When building and installing an application from ports, how does the original binary or

Re: When do binaries get removed?

2010-03-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net wrote: Good evening; I am using; $uname -r $8.0-RELEASE under Sun VirtualBox 3.1.6. I am a long time Debian GNU/Linux user who has just installed the above release.  I have installed and used FreeBSD in years past

When do binaries get removed?

2010-03-28 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good evening; I am using; $uname -r $8.0-RELEASE under Sun VirtualBox 3.1.6. I am a long time Debian GNU/Linux user who has just installed the above release. I have installed and used FreeBSD in years past but that was around the 5.x-RELEASE. I have had a time installing applications from

When do binaries get removed?

2010-03-28 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good evening; I am using; $uname -r $8.0-RELEASE hosted on Sun VirtualBox 3.1.6. (NOT O.S.E.) running on Debian 'lenny'. I am a long time Debian GNU/Linux user who has just installed the above release. I have installed and used FreeBSD in years past but that was around the 5.x-RELEASE. I

Re: When do binaries get removed?

2010-03-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net wrote: Good evening; When building and installing an application from ports, how does the original binary or script, in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/etc..., from the distribution, get removed? It doesn't. The make