Re: [ossig] A very lengthy article on installing and securing FreeBSD

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@polyscientific.com.my>]

>
> FreeBSD has what is called the ports system. basically it is a
> directory tree with files in it which contain information about the
> application or library etc
> for example, xine would be in
>
> /usr/ports/multimedia/xine
>
> to install xine you just need to cd to that directory and type "make
> install clean"
> wait while it compiles and if all goes well the package will be
> installed, and registered with the package manager

Question, if something that is not included in the CD, honeyd for example, 
which also require libnids and libevent, how does FreeBSD satisfy the 
dependencies. Are there mirrors around for FreeBSD to auto download libnids 
and libevent when you try to build the honeyd tarball ?


> later if you want to update it
>
> just run "portupgrade xine"

What's the mechanism for this? Do you have to configure some mirrors site to 
download the latest edition ?


> thats it





>
> Cheers
>
> Meng
>
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