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Cc: Jerry <jerrymc@msu.edu>, pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Patches in FreeBSD
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Josh Carroll wrote:
>> and you can update your third party packages via binary packages
>> (which you can get from freebsd.org or build yourself)...so it seems
>> these two solutions would be a great fit.
>
> Right, using packages instead of ports means he can do binary updates
> of packages as well, without having to recompile them from ports for
> version updates.
>
> Josh
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Assuming the package is available, which is not always the case.

Brian