Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:28:45 -0700 From: Peter Avalos <pavalos@theshell.com> To: Lewis Watson <lists@visionsix.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports or From Source? Message-ID: <20021010192845.GK57053@theshell.com> In-Reply-To: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi> References: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi>
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--ncSAzJYg3Aa9+CRW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:57:01PM -0500, Lewis Watson wrote: > 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. >=20 The ports collection is a framework for building software. You can build from source using the ports tree. I usually build anything I need to install from the ports tree. --Pete --ncSAzJYg3Aa9+CRW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE9pdTtKjaxugguz8URAmS/AJYpOu7fjgqbPfe5D64opTCwlgFfAJ0S9wYJ T54EnolJz8bS3kQ3C3GWmg== =Ehny -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ncSAzJYg3Aa9+CRW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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