From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 13:31:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AC416A4CF for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:31:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (naen-d9b80b22.pool.mediaWays.net [217.184.11.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B91F43D55 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:31:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: by bellona.sz.vwsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 9002) id EEE2112372; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:27:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Scanned-By: clam-av using AMaViS-ng at bellona.sz.vwsoft.com Received: from [192.168.16.24] (unknown [192.168.16.24]) by bellona.sz.vwsoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC90312370; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:27:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40EAA8AA.7040600@vwsoft.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:27:06 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040701 Thunderbird/0.7+ Mnenhy/0.6.0.101 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: seb11@ciaoweb.it References: <20040706120136.EC43016A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040706120136.EC43016A4D5@hub.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports (was: Call for FreeBSD status reports) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:31:47 -0000 Hi Pino! > 1. could be 5.0 a good base to start to join a quite STABLE > configuration? STABLE (in the meaning of production stable) is currently at the 4.x branch. This is still the recommended version for production (live) systems. If you're wanting to give the new technology a try, you should use the latest CURRENT (development) branch. The latest release of the CURRENT branch is 5.2.1. From my point of view I would suggest to use that version in favour of 5.0 or 5.1 releases. You may get a stable working system even with the CURRENT releases but that depends on (mostly) your hardware. Some components are only available at the CURRENT branch so if you've some special needs, you should use a 5.x-RELEASE version. > > 2. where I can get (order and buy) tarball ports on cd's and, in such > case, what should be the right order to get the appropriate versions, > according to the level of patching and evolution of the FreeBSD > version (non matter which, 5.0 or different ...) I'll be using? > I don't think you will really need all of the 7000+ sources of the ports system. The ports system comes with some thousand files (mostly makesfiles) and these files are carrying the information where to get the files for a port in question. So if you want to install a single port, just cd to /usr/ports/???/??? and 'make install clean' while your machine is online. That will fetch the sources of the port and any dependencies, compile and install. It really doesn't make sense to have all these 7000+ ports be installed on a single machine. My production machine (server, router, gateway - one does it all - machine) currently has only 168 ports installed. Do not install any ports you won't need! Also the ports collection is not a bunch of source code. You may see it as a maintaned database which holds information about where to get the source archives for a single port. The ports collection itself doesn't depend on -STABLE or -CURRENT. You may even rcp/rsync/scp your ports collection from a 4.9-STABLE machine to a 5.2-CURRENT machine. HTH, Volker -- GPG/PGP fingerprint: FF93 13A1 2477 B631 E953 06DF 4C49 ADD9 E4BF 79B1