From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 11 1:44:10 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 E21E037B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newnet.co.uk (newnet.co.uk [212.87.80.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB3243EAC for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 01:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Received: from BONG (perry-gw-nat1-eth1.router.trident-uk.co.uk [81.3.89.49]) by newnet.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g9B8hLtS039080; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:43:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Message-ID: <005601c27102$1f4e8cb0$3264a8c0@BONG> Reply-To: "Jamie Heckford" From: "Jamie Heckford" To: "Lewis Watson" Cc: References: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi> Subject: Re: Ports or From Source? Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:42:13 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Newnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean 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 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" To: 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 and believed to be clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message