Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

[Jason C. Wells]

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.
>

Doh, I just read the handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/packages-using.html

**

    If you want to force pkg_add(1)
    <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1> to
    download FreeBSD 8-STABLE packages, set PACKAGESITE to
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/.

Later,
Jason