From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 11 10:53:41 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 9A03037B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from notus.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070C943E91 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leth@primus.ca) Received: from dialin-153-145.tor.primus.ca ([216.254.153.145]) by notus.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 1803yi-0000Jf-0A; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:53:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:54:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Hunt X-X-Sender: leth@lethargic.dyndns.org To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Lewis Watson Subject: Re: Ports or From Source? In-Reply-To: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi> Message-ID: <20021011133312.T59319-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Lewis Watson wrote: > 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? Personally, I have always built everything from ports with the exception of Apache+PHP, MySQL, and anything else that I want to make major configuration customizations with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message