Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:53:50 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: bento and the ports system Message-ID: <20040601025350.GA27082@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <40BBEE6A.1010308@alumni.rice.edu> References: <40BBB1D2.4020800@alumni.rice.edu> <20040601024039.GA26824@xor.obsecurity.org> <40BBEE6A.1010308@alumni.rice.edu>
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On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:48:10PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote:
> >Packages on pointyhat may not always be consistent or working.
> >Furthermore, they may not interoperate as expected with what you have
> > on your own system, because ports are customized for installed
> >packages and build settings (e.g. building with GNOME support when
> >you have GNOME installed).
>
> Yeah, I thought about that but figured a package with a default
> configuration might still be useful.
>
> >The packages on the FTP site are updated periodically from a
> >known-good build. If you don't mind about the limitations, you can
> >already use these automatically with pkg_add -r or portupgrade -P.
>
> I do this for several machines already. It works OK, but as you say, it
> 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
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