From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 04:33:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31D3106564A for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:33:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcw@speakeasy.net) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0918FC1B for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31369 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2011 04:33:23 -0000 Received: from dsl081-163-120.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO w16.stradamotorsports.com) (jcw@[64.81.163.120]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Sep 2011 04:33:23 -0000 Message-ID: <4E781792.8090803@speakeasy.net> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:33:22 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110120 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Eighner References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brandon Kuczenski , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:33:23 -0000 On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > >> I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some >> installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if >> things get too out of sync. > I noticed only recently that there are now packages on FTP in a folder called packages-8-stable. I am not sure how often these are built. I expect that the entire ports tree is built much like it is during a release, except at some later point in time. I would expect that those ports are all "dependency consistent" with each other to the maximum extent possible. I also prefer packages to ports, but there are a few updates to ports that I want now (xorg, xfce, rhythmbox), but I really don't want to try 9.0 when it becomes a release. I plan to upgrade my packages to 8-stable from this directory in a couple weeks. Maybe this policy will work for you. Later, Jason