FreeBSD: Building software from ports (1/2)

In my previous two (link) posts (link) I wrote about using Pkg, FreeBSD's package manager. Pre-built binary packages are convenient to use but sometimes you need some more flexibility, want an application that cannot not be distributed in binary form due to license issues (or have some other requirements). Building software by hand is certainly …

FreeBSD package management with Pkg (2/2)

The previous article covered basic operations with FreeBSD's Pkg tool. This second part will deal with some more advanced (or rather intermediate, actually) functionality. Good code travels well My previous two articles have been linked to from the DragonFly Digest (a very valuable resource for topics in BSD and the IT in general that I've …