On Saturday 20 May 2006 15:03, Lars Hansson wrote: > What "make update" does is eactly what the pkg tools does, ie pkg_add -r so > it's neather better or worse. Well, it's worse because you need to install > the entire ports tree and compile the port into a package etc. Just using > packages is faster and easier.
It be can't said too many times that with FETCH_PACKAGES=YES, PKG_PATH set to a few ftp-mirrors of the packages, compiling is not neccesary. I have personally always disliked installing packages - searching on some ftp-site or in a gigantic index file for a file which name is different for more or less every release... and sometimes not finding it because distribution is not permitted. Maybe it's just me but... I would like to point out (for those poor souls that somehow missed this) that FETCH_PACKAGES is simply *the* best thing since... sliced bread. It downloads what it can find, compiles the rest. Easy to keep up with updates: cd /usr/ports/ && cvs -q up -rOPENBSD_X_Y && pkg_add -ui Thanks! /Johan
