From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 14:19:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448C910656C3 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 14:19:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C618FC20 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 14:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from modulok@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so59399ele.8 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 07:19:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=rzsHwrf99XQeND0afRwUP+NNED63ULYkG2O+qII3USU=; b=ur+sHa6J23uo+P42qyQa6Cou+5CLDKO/NRTJydIinto+qib8W5N0ghaGy7gaT0M2WyccvPZmvELTZJ+LWtN+2ejVJ93TB7sSxQXDkMja4a39lzm2vTkHJSF4xnX8/g0BZrOgaCcqtwyC/ORA2GnYbOIMo3uat6gpFi3Qxpnst6Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=X7uuYWMmBySMrlUqkyK7bCdmMPR/8u5U9JSl5M/7Opk4fZpJKbwX3pWH51Vy3WTvVe7VMGLdYsTCYdHe4QRMQuqxN3LZqtwiT0JsMGTxwibU17U5fS8LDdPGLwKMjcFPcE23sw02bHhXt6zLV7hq+Cj7KgX+X2gi+hte5sLd/qg= Received: by 10.142.237.20 with SMTP id k20mr881913wfh.174.1210168417933; Wed, 07 May 2008 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.200.19 with HTTP; Wed, 7 May 2008 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <64c038660805070653v5d17139bs3d95981c9fade9a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:53:37 -0600 From: Modulok To: "Dsiuh Djsids" In-Reply-To: <466267.30177.qm@web45703.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <466267.30177.qm@web45703.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/Packages Philosophy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:19:54 -0000 On 5/6/08, Dsiuh Djsids wrote: > > I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating > philosophies are regarding ports/packages on either a server or a home > desktop. For example, how often do you update your software and when you do, > do you run something like 'portupgrade -a' or individually take care of each > piece of software? Upgrades...unless they're very pressing security issues that directly relate to the well-being of my server, I upgrade as rarely as possible. Upgrading things has a tendency to break stuff at the most inopportune time. Frankly, I'm not sure why everyone is so adamant about having the latest updates. If the program does what I require, I would rather have a more aged version which has been given time to get the bugs worked out. As far as building software, I do this as rarely as possible as well. Unless there is a specific functionality which requires a set of non-default compiler flags, I use packages. It makes no sense to waste time re-compiling the same program, with the same compiler options, for the same processor architecture as has already been done by countless others. For example, if you ran a lab of 300 identical computers, would you re-compile every program on each computer? Probably not. If I can get a pre-compiled binary from a reliable source, I'd rater do that, than sit around all day waiting for software to build in hopes of benefiting from a few custom build options. My 2 cents worth. -Modulok-