Install order?

[Chris Hill]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, David Reedy Jr wrote:

> I'm very new to FreeBSD, just installed it for the first time maybe a 
> week ago. I've redone it several times since, so feel comfortable in 
> the VERY basics.

Cool. Welcome!

> Also, I've noticed that some of the port versions on this site are a 
> little newer that in my 6.2 release. Will I have problems installing 
> these instead?

The ports shown on the site are sometimes newer because the ported 
software has changed, and the port updated, since 6.2 was released.

Two ports I install on a new machine, before just about anything else, 
are sysutils/fastest_cvsup [1] and ports-mgmt/portupgrade. With 
portupgrade, I can use csup to get my ports up-to-date before installing 
anything else. That way I'll get the latest, or nearly so, version of 
apache or whatever.

[1] You'll see this notation a lot on this list. sysutils/fastest_cvsup 
means that you would do your 'make install' in 
/usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup.

To answer the question, you may or may not have problems depending on 
the specific port. For 6.2-RELEASE, I would guess that you're OK since 
it's relatively recent. But the more time passes, the fewer ports will 
install properly. I would suggest you get acquainted with port (and 
system) updating procedures early on; it will save you grief down the 
road. Now seems like a good time, since you have a new system with 
(presumably) nothing important on it yet.

HTH.

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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
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