From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 20:26:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FBB16A403 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:26:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reko.turja@liukuma.net) Received: from www.liukuma.net (www.liukuma.net [62.220.235.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 540A813C4B7 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:26:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reko.turja@liukuma.net) Received: from rivendell (c-bb0471d5.019-61-68617010.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [213.113.4.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.liukuma.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73879E20; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:54:41 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <01e901c77560$cdec15a0$0a0aa8c0@rivendell> From: "Reko Turja" To: "Charles Farinella" References: <46113D03.6000604@appropriatesolutions.com><20070402120758.M34595@wonkity.com> <461154E9.8030208@appropriatesolutions.com> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:55:02 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automatically starting PostgreSQL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:26:34 -0000 > For reasons having to do with our particular operation, it is our > custom to build many packages from source code no matter the > operating system, so I don't want to install from the ports tree. The ports tree is just there for installation from source and putting the software after compile into canonical locations (and adding usually the necessary startup scripts etc. in the process - Ports are not to be mixed with packages. As FreeBSD supports the source centric way from centralised location, there shouldn't really be any need for doing the compile outside the ports tree. You can basically tweak the ports to your hearts content (most of the relevant options can be tweaked from the ports Makefile already) and in addition the port installs into location using a method the rest of FreeBSD users can give you meaningful advice. -Reko