Can i make a CD of the Ports Collection
Comrade Burnout
geektron at comradeburnout.com
Wed Aug 4 14:15:38 PDT 2004
R. W. wrote:
>Just a thought, but do you actually need an up-to-date
>ports collection. If you are trying things out, and frequently
>reinstalling you may be better-off with the one on the disk.
>
>One of the big pitfalls in FreeBSD (and Gentoo Linux) is
>that new users install something like gnome, from the
>disk packages, and then sync-up their ports and bring in
>a new version. They are then left with a major rebuild
>(which may require a special recipe or script), or face
>build problems with new ports.
>
>
this is one of the reasons i tend to install from FTP (and boot disks),
and not from the CD.
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