From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 19:53:57 2004 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 AE6AD16A4CE for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9878043D49 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (397f81d3236841ebd41659c700b7d0e0@adsl-67-115-73-128.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.115.73.128])i512rpvJ014317; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A747A521D5; Mon, 31 May 2004 19:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:53:50 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jon Noack Message-ID: <20040601025350.GA27082@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <40BBB1D2.4020800@alumni.rice.edu> <20040601024039.GA26824@xor.obsecurity.org> <40BBEE6A.1010308@alumni.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40BBEE6A.1010308@alumni.rice.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: bento and the ports system 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: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 02:53:57 -0000 --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:48:10PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote: > >Packages on pointyhat may not always be consistent or working.=20 > >Furthermore, they may not interoperate as expected with what you have > > on your own system, because ports are customized for installed=20 > >packages and build settings (e.g. building with GNOME support when=20 > >you have GNOME installed). >=20 > Yeah, I thought about that but figured a package with a default=20 > configuration might still be useful. > > >The packages on the FTP site are updated periodically from a=20 > >known-good build. If you don't mind about the limitations, you can=20 > >already use these automatically with pkg_add -r or portupgrade -P. >=20 > I do this for several machines already. It works OK, but as you say, it= =20 > is limited. The limitations I referred to were those in the first paragraph above ("default configuration", etc). They're not going to go away by making the ports collection fetch packages by default. Kris --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAu+++Wry0BWjoQKURAiULAJ9KFUZ98+pJS2HjJg/5wCI0lsorjwCgth6b YRUIG7Jq4UzZi6++MEuj6kU= =G/ez -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--