From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Apr 25 15:51:10 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BC4B1CE1E for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) Received: from mail.ssimicro.com (mail.ssimicro.com [64.247.129.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ssimicro.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76D3C1A5B for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:51:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markham@ssimicro.com) Received: from markham.ssimicro.com (markham.ssimicro.com [64.247.130.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ssimicro.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id u3PFK2ZX047138 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:20:06 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: Sane way to resolve potential conflicts in the system To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20160423162910.7cd2ede2@curlew.lan> <9ed38de6-0089-9645-9798-7cdf767d3047@hiwaay.net> From: markham breitbach Message-ID: <785fd558-5604-1597-75c3-2ad39825ff11@ssimicro.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:03 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9ed38de6-0089-9645-9798-7cdf767d3047@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:51:10 -0000 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