Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:33:22 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@speakeasy.net> To: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> Cc: Brandon Kuczenski <brandon@301south.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? ) Message-ID: <4E781792.8090803@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109191546330.3259@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc> References: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1109191115100.17028@coral> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109191546330.3259@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc>
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On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > >> I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some >> installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if >> things get too out of sync. > I noticed only recently that there are now packages on FTP in a folder called packages-8-stable. I am not sure how often these are built. I expect that the entire ports tree is built much like it is during a release, except at some later point in time. I would expect that those ports are all "dependency consistent" with each other to the maximum extent possible. I also prefer packages to ports, but there are a few updates to ports that I want now (xorg, xfce, rhythmbox), but I really don't want to try 9.0 when it becomes a release. I plan to upgrade my packages to 8-stable from this directory in a couple weeks. Maybe this policy will work for you. Later, Jason
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