From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 8:21:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C69F737B405 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1501 invoked by uid 100); 6 Sep 2001 15:21:26 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15255.38006.194235.269821@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:21:26 -0500 To: ann kok Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports and tarball In-Reply-To: <107827368@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ann kok types: > I would like to install apache, mod_ssl, mysql and php > from tarball instead of ports > > Could I do that way? any conflict? Yes. Shouldn't be. > what versions of the aforesaid package do you suggest? I recommend using the ports. > In fact, what is the different between ports and > tarball The ports take the tarball, extract, patch - if needed - and configure it for FreeBSD before building it. Ports give you get a consistent set of commands for dealing with software, no matter what the authors provided. They are also integrated into the package system so that you get to use those tools on the software after you install it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message