Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:42:13 +0100 From: "Jamie Heckford" <jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk> To: "Lewis Watson" <lists@visionsix.com> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports or From Source? Message-ID: <005601c27102$1f4e8cb0$3264a8c0@BONG> References: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi>
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Another thing is that some ports (Samba for example) have various FreeBSD specific patches that improve performance and stability. I never used to be for building from the ports, preferring a source compile, but it is a hell of a lot easier from ports. Once you have learnt how it works with all the make commands, you can make your own modifications to the source code (make extract; vi sourcefiles; make install) and still keep track of it through the ports system. Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Watson" <lists@visionsix.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 7:57 PM Subject: Ports or From Source? > 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 > -- ____________________________________________________ Message scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.newnet.co.uk/av/>; and believed to be clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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