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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