Re:The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals
by Luyt on Sunday March 31, 2013 @01:47PM
(#5469431)
On top of the hassle of using ports...
I have a nearly friction-free experience with FreeBSD ports.
portsnap fetch && portsnap extract
cd /usr/ports/lang/python && make install clean
cd /usr/ports/www/nginx && make install clean
...etc
Sometimes, during an extensive upgrade of hundreds of ports (portupgrade -a) I've gotten into a situation in which the ports system got confused a bit (it happened twice with a PHP extension). In such a case, pkg_deinstalling liberally Apache, PHP, PHP extensions, Apr-utils and maybe some others like freetype, and then installing the web stack ports again has always solved the problem.
I have a nearly friction-free experience with FreeBSD ports.
Sometimes, during an extensive upgrade of hundreds of ports (portupgrade -a) I've gotten into a situation in which the ports system got confused a bit (it happened twice with a PHP extension). In such a case, pkg_deinstalling liberally Apache, PHP, PHP extensions, Apr-utils and maybe some others like freetype, and then installing the web stack ports again has always solved the problem.