From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 20:27:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2D437B405 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15qnYP-000Gne-00; Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:27:37 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f993RX605681; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:27:33 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:27:33 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Gerry Freymann Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about Ports vs Packages and Updating them Message-ID: <20011009162732.A5637@jonc.itouch> References: <20011008225617.27f66dda.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011008225617.27f66dda.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:56:17PM -0400 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 Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:56:17PM -0400, Gerry Freymann wrote: [...] > And that's my third (and last) question: why set up a cvsup to update > the ports, if, when you're "stuck" and fall back to packages, it only > mucks up your entire port collection? A package is only a snapshot of the ports. And as time passes by, everything moves on. You need the cvsup so the ports get updated and you get the latest and greatest bug-fixes, features et al. You should only use the packages if you're stuck for time - and even then I prefer not to use them. If there's a problem with the ports, you should report them; that's what the lists are for. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message