Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:53:54 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017978080.c95ba0@mired.org> Cc: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, Zach Barnett <zpb@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Packages and Ports [pkg vs portupgrade?] Message-ID: <20020331035355.63157BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <15526.34143.518468.27763@guru.mired.org> References: <20020329204644.V81735-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020331033435.930E3BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> <15526.34143.518468.27763@guru.mired.org>
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On Saturday 30 March 2002 10:41 pm, Mike Meyer wrote:
| In <20020331033435.930E3BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>, Brian T.Schellenberger
<bts@babbleon.org> typed:
| > On Saturday 30 March 2002 10:27 pm, Mike Meyer wrote:
| > | I don't think you read my reply very carefully. Or would you care to
| > | explain how to get my favorited configuration of Apache - which uses
| > | the python module, a postgress authentication module, with dynamic
| > | module loading turned off - to build from ports?
| >
| > I already have. Use the ports to "build patch" so that you get the soruce
| > downloaded and patched automatically; then change to the work directory
| > and continue as you would with a straight tarball install, only now
| > you've already had handy FreeBSD patches installed.
|
| That doesn't build it from ports, that just applies the porters
| patches to the tarball.
Umm . . . true. I don't think I ever said it did, did I?
I said that I would fetch & build it the old-fashioned Unix way . . .
BTW, I forgot to add in my last reply, about your response that you might do
it from a straight tarball because you wanted to do the same as on other
systems:
Yes, you got me there. That makes two reasons I can think of to entirely
bypass the ports mechanism:
1. Pedantic or educational, of which "wants to do the same on all systems"
is a special case, and
2. Port doesn't exist or is not up to date.
(In the latter case you should think about submitting updates for the ports
system.)
|
| > Which is, of course, exactly what my first mail message said. Are you
| > *sure* you read it?
|
| Yes. Art you *sure* you read mine?
|
| <mike
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