From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 17:24:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72EB16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:24:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF2743D2F for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:24:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2381BFD020; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:24:04 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41F13AB1.6080505@locolomo.org> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:24:01 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: saravanan ganapathy References: <20050121152741.3171.qmail@web51702.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050121152741.3171.qmail@web51702.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port update problem - newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:24:05 -0000 saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the > ports collections which I don't want. > > I am trying to use freebsd for web hosting servers.Can > you list the ports which are not useful for servers? This is a tough question, if you now have a fully updated ports tree and you have sufficient diskspace then let it be that way. As you get things up running you'll get a feel of what you don't want/need. It is anoying if you have to wait for the update to complete, if you have flatrate connection, you may consider a cronjob to update the ports tree for you, say once a week or once a month. If you are newbie, then you might prefer not to update the ports tree so often, new ports may require other ports to be updated that are depended on by yet other ports. This can be a showblocker first time you stumple into it. So, let go with it for a while and get comfy with the OS. > How to use refuse file? See cvsup man page Cheers Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2