Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 09:01:41 +0100 From: Aren Olvalde Tyr <aren.tyr@gawab.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade Tool Message-ID: <200605010901.50654.aren.tyr@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <4453E231.1030107@chrismaness.com> References: <44538D42.8030301@chrismaness.com> <20060429185437.GA62359@xor.obsecurity.org> <4453E231.1030107@chrismaness.com>
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--nextPart7695280.DWqqp7Dp5Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 29 April 2006 23:01, Chris Maness wrote: > apps by hand with no ill results for a while. The only time igot into > trouble was after I synced the whole tree and tried only upgrading some > of the apps. It just seems like re-compiling every application every > time portaudit finds a security hole is a waste of processor time. If you don't wish to be regularly recompiling applications, why not simply= =20 stick to pkg_add and use pre-built binary packages? You can download these= =20 directly off the FreeBSD ports website/mirror, or use sysinstall to connect= =20 to a FreeBSD FTP server and install them that way. Binary packages exist for most, if not all, ports on the tree. Whilst I normally always build from source off the ports tree, there is the= =20 odd occasion when I will install a binary package instead (e.g. cvsup, whic= h=20 is simply a 1.2MB package download, as opposed to a build which has a 10MB= =20 source package dependency). Aren. PS. Yes OpenOffice is a demanding beast to build. KDE was even worse, I had= to=20 build it all over several days on my mere 1.3Ghz system. Very much worth it= =20 though. :) Kudos to everyone involved with these ports, both built absolute= ly=20 flawlessly for me on my 6-STABLE system. Looking forward to the GNOME 2.14= =20 port, since the xkblayout switching is broken in 2.12 (known problem). --nextPart7695280.DWqqp7Dp5Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEVcBuoWGxb6IQ4B4RArYyAJ9H3wFoq9+Bsj6whkPaIbKkrLwQkwCfVX8t wYFgZVRTddng2zqU79uq0m4= =u3Xw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7695280.DWqqp7Dp5Y--
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