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I'm still trying to understand how services work together. (Perl is my friend.) In stock 10.1-RELEASE, I find the following line in /etc/rc.d/ipmon: # REQUIRE: FILESYSTEMS hostname sysctl FILESYSTEMS ipfilterDoes the order of the dependencies list matter, and why does FILESYSTEMS occur twice?

When I install package bash, the following message appears on my teletype: ====================================================================== bash requires fdescfs(5) mounted on /dev/fd If you have not done it yet, please do the following: mount -t fdescfs fdesc /dev/fd To make it...

Urg. I just reread the chapter. The _1 is not PORTEPOCH, as I previously thought, but PORTREVISION. The ,1 is PORTEPOCH.

Having carefully read the Porter's Handbook chapter on specifying version numbers, I remain puzzled by the name /var/cache/pkg/m4-1.4.17_1,1.txz. What does the ,1 mean? At first I thought it was a sort of European-style decimal point in the PORTEPOCH. But that can't be it, because I also...

Thanks, that explains the _11 part; it's referred to as PORTEPOCH in the Porter's Handbook. But what about the c37b9c525b part?

When, for example, I do a pkg install perl5, I find that there is a file called /var/cache/pkg/perl5-5.18.4_11-c37b9c525b.txz I guess the 5 is the major version number, 18 is the minor version number, 4 is some sort of micro version number, but what's that 11 doing in there? A nano version...