Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:03 -0600 From: markham breitbach <markham@ssimicro.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: Sane way to resolve potential conflicts in the system Message-ID: <785fd558-5604-1597-75c3-2ad39825ff11@ssimicro.com> In-Reply-To: <9ed38de6-0089-9645-9798-7cdf767d3047@hiwaay.net> References: <CAAdA2WPZiBYxK9XL_ToAvWtQOiJ0Da7fqVBinyq10%2BMC10zz6A@mail.gmail.com> <CAOc73CC57yjqteXrZZd%2Bs2Z353r9AycG39mf9f136hGaY=iTzQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAAdA2WMJc%2Bt=mw9FZ5ScPBxg0K5t-J7VHozBPBjd_-1TzunCZw@mail.gmail.com> <20160423162910.7cd2ede2@curlew.lan> <BLU436-SMTP13BF30CFA35882760E7E8080600@phx.gbl> <CAAdA2WNJ1ru4NunPZ1aZkndXYnK218ojB-3673FDtoBcAH-OJA@mail.gmail.com> <BLU436-SMTP216A4769A78511EFEBCDFB280600@phx.gbl> <CAAdA2WM0mmO%2BVaCKc6MfJtgJRfRuq=0r-MuDyYKgW3mVFFX5%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <9ed38de6-0089-9645-9798-7cdf767d3047@hiwaay.net>
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On 2016-04-23 2:48 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > Packages necessarily don't give you that option. They aren't supposed > to. You accept whatever options the builder/maintainer selected & > install/upgrade. Where it might take hours to rebuild a bunch of > ports, it often takes just a few min. to install/upgrade packages. You > pick your option (ports or packages) & (hopefully) are happy w/ it. I > maintain this box w/ packages almost exclusively, except for flash > support in the browsers, which must be compiled up in ports due to > licensing issues. When I was getting started w/ FreeBSD, summer of > 2014, I built iceweasel in ports per list advice, took 5 1/2 hrs. > (!!!!!). I upgraded it a few weeks later w/ pkg, took less than 30 sec.= > > I have taken to using the ports tree to `make package` on a development host, and then store my customized packages in my own private repo. I add my private repo as part of my server commissioning routine so it is checked first, then I only have to build once and deploy many. -Markham
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