From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 18:38:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F3916A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 18:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freedombi.com (greenhousebirthcenter.com [207.179.98.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C2D43D41 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 18:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charles@idealso.com) Received: by freedombi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BD4C7283D; Thu, 27 May 2004 21:38:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freedombi.com (bugs.idealso.com [192.168.10.108]) by freedombi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id D0B5B7248F; Thu, 27 May 2004 21:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 65.82.230.38 (SquirrelMail authenticated user charles) by freedombi.com with HTTP; Thu, 27 May 2004 21:37:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <64880.65.82.230.38.1085708279.squirrel@freedombi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20040527153704.R23918@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:37:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles Ulrich" To: "Pete French" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on freedombi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00,PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua cc: petefrench@keithprowse.com cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with 4.10 and mysql X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 01:38:15 -0000 Pete French said: > Usually a good idea - I do for everything other than mysql... mainly > because > I had a problem with the ports when I started doing this four years ago, > and > so went to hand build. Just a friendly suggestion (not trying to preach to the choir, this is more for the benefit of new users): Their purpose is to provide some level of assurance that popular third-party packages work as well as possible under FreeBSD, and that often (or even usually) means applying patches to the original code. Without those patches, you might encounter subtle or major bugs that only appear when the software is run on FreeBSD. If you install something from ports and it doesn't work the way you want it to, then query the mailing lists, contact the port maintainer, or file a problem report, in that order. More often than not, the issue can and will be fixed. Ports are meant to be the FreeBSD developers' best possible compromise between officially supported third-party programs and letting users fend for themselves in the software wilderness. Charles Ulrich