Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:10:23 -0800 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@ocis.net> To: Dale Morris <dlm@well.com> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg vs ports Message-ID: <20020329101023.M24346@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <20020329060428.A699@well.com> References: <20020329060428.A699@well.com>
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> I'm curious if there's any difference between the 'quality' > of the install of a port package or using the pkg_add > command? There shouldn't be. After all, the packages are built using the ports system. The only real differences would be: - packages tend to be build for the lowest common denominator wrt CPU architecture and options. IOW, they're built to run on 386's with the default option. - ports are optimised for your specific system and allow you to fiddle with options and features - packages are pre-built so all you do is install it - ports must be compiled before they can be installed which can take a long time on slow machines (almost 2 days to buildworld on my 486, ports tend to take a few hours) > I've noticed a couple of times that building a program > from the ports has crashed my machine, whereas pkg_add > seems to go smoothly. Crash how? What kind of errors? Which ports? Were the ports broken or in the midst of being changed? Not much info here. Packages *should* work on virtually every machine out there running the appropriate version of FreeBSD. That's the nice thing about them. The ports should also work on virtually avery machine out there, but it depends on the version of libraries, compilers, and other build tools that you have. > I've read the paragraph in the handbook and it really > doesn't satisfy my curiosity, what do you guys think? It's a trade-off between customisability and optimisation versus ease/speed of installation. There's no other difference between a port and a package. Freddie fcash@bigfoot.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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