From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Apr 25 22:23:13 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 51779B1CE3B for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 22:23:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 201B6194E for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 22:23:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-226-44.knology.net [216.186.226.44] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u3PMN5n0017668 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:23:06 -0500 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> <785fd558-5604-1597-75c3-2ad39825ff11@ssimicro.com> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <227c8e68-598b-7800-57f0-5eab5795fbc5@hiwaay.net> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:28:35 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <785fd558-5604-1597-75c3-2ad39825ff11@ssimicro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 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 22:23:13 -0000 On 04/25/16 10:31, markham breitbach wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Sounds good, also sounds a bit like poudriere, IIUTC .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.