From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 9 23:11:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B24106564A for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:11:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51528FC17 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q09NBUlv059805 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 23:11:30 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q09NBUlv059805 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1326150690; bh=o2zZoePjQefaJetQjrzeUrynw+f38DBGelUIzQSBVME=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc; b=JGF0vYjP51VyD0+YDuEklBBYUczS18M+oyE9j8so9V8+Ci1mTXVi2GaQX9W+IUc7K s5tG6ENbbCVTKnhlonOREKmPm7dv8AaTPzsuu8VIr7Sw7DGSozcXY+keKzcvpEJBO2 77pCtFjs0KJFGjiP94Qrs1xdT5xuDW9HzCwmevpw= Message-ID: <4F0B7421.2090108@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:11:29 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <0812A14F-CC55-4E08-A5CD-CB61FC4B5872@alexus.org> In-Reply-To: <0812A14F-CC55-4E08-A5CD-CB61FC4B5872@alexus.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB2F3722575226009A6CE052D" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: php5-5.3.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:11:34 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB2F3722575226009A6CE052D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/01/2012 21:52, alexus wrote: > I'm trying to migrate from REDHAT EL world to FREEBSD. We have a > policy of installing binary packages and stay away from compiling > source code. I have FreeBSD-9.0RC3 and I did pkg_add -r apache22 > pkg_add -r php5, so now I have both packages installed but I can't > get them to work together... You might want to review that policy if you're going to move to FreeBSD. Much of the unique benefit of the ports system is obtained through using it to compile software (which you can tune to your specific use case much better) rather than by installing generic binary packages. The apache22 port is a particularly good example. If you go to compile that from ports, you'll find you can tailor pretty much every apache module that gets included in your system, plus you have an unprecedented degree of control over what gets built into the apache portable runtime layer as well. Meaning you can really slim down and get more apache processes into your available memory, hence greater throughput. On the other hand, it is a bit daunting to wade through all those options if you aren't very familiar with them and don't know what is really needed, and what can be cast aside. Yes, compilation takes a bit longer than download+install, but not a huge amount greater in most cases. (Some ports are monsters and take ages to build, but they are exceptional.) Ports does make it quite simple to build your own binary packages with all your required customizations, which you can then use to manage your live systems. The best of both worlds really. 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