Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:57:01 -0500 From: "Lewis Watson" <lists@visionsix.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Ports or From Source? Message-ID: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi>
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Hey there, I have been running linux on many of our servers and have looked at bsd a couple of times and decided that I might start moving our servers towards freebsd. I have a couple of questions that I cannot find the answers for and am wanting input as to the pros/cons of each. With linux generally I have bypassed the rpm and compiled whatever services (apache, bind, etc,etc) I wanted from source. On freebsd I see there is a ports collection and I am wondering what to do here and what others do; compile from original source or build from the port. I see that the apache ports are running the latest version of apache so it for example seems to stay current. What is the preferred way to go with this? Thanks Lewis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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