From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 10 12:28:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB61E37B404 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from theshell.com (arsenic.theshell.com [63.236.138.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00ECF43E75 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavalos@theshell.com) Received: (qmail 98646 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2002 19:28:48 -0000 Received: from radium.theshell.com (pavalos@63.236.138.3) by arsenic.theshell.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2002 19:28:48 -0000 Received: (from pavalos@localhost) by radium.theshell.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g9AJSktP011449; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavalos) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:28:45 -0700 From: Peter Avalos To: Lewis Watson Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports or From Source? Message-ID: <20021010192845.GK57053@theshell.com> Mail-Followup-To: Lewis Watson , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ncSAzJYg3Aa9+CRW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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