From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 19:54:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE40B37B405 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:54:22 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 63157BA05; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:53:55 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Packages and Ports [pkg vs portupgrade?] Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:53:54 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Peter Leftwich , Jonathan Arnold , Zach Barnett , FreeBSD Questions References: <20020329204644.V81735-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020331033435.930E3BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> <15526.34143.518468.27763@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15526.34143.518468.27763@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020331035355.63157BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 30 March 2002 10:41 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: | In <20020331033435.930E3BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>, Brian T.Schellenberger 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? | | http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message