Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:30:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chip McClure" <vhm3@io.gigguardian.com> To: <lists@visionsix.com> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports or From Source? Message-ID: <21866.24.219.11.216.1034278240.squirrel@mimas.gigguardian.com> In-Reply-To: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi> References: <001701c2708e$d1432260$a977ca41@yogi>
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Lewis Watson said: Hello Lewis, I highly reccomend building from the ports tree. If the version of the application that I want to use, is not currently in the directory in the ports tree, I'll snag it from the -current directory from one of the ftp.freebsd.org servers, then install from there. The reason for doing this, is unlike rpm, if you're missing any dependencies, those are automatically downloaded, compiled, and installed for you as well. I prefer to build everything I use, from source, much the same as what you've listed. In the past 1 1/2 years, I've migrated 90% of our servers from linux to FreeBSD. In that time, the amount of time spent locating, and downloading an application, and all the dependencies that it requires, has gone to just about 0. :) The ports collection, in my opinion is the best thing since sliced butter. Chip ----- Chip McClure Sr. Unix Administrator GigGuardian, Inc. http://www.gigguardian.com/ ----- > Hey there, > I have been running linux on many of our servers and have looked at bsd > a couple of times and decided that I might start moving our servers > towards freebsd. I have a couple of questions that I cannot find the > answers for and am wanting input as to the pros/cons of each. With > linux generally I have bypassed the rpm and compiled whatever services > (apache, bind, etc,etc) I wanted from source. On freebsd I see there is > a ports collection and I am wondering what to do here and what others > do; compile from original source or build from the port. > > I see that the apache ports are running the latest version of apache so > it for example seems to stay current. What is the preferred way to go > with this? > Thanks > Lewis > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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