Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-13 Thread Nicolai
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 05:53:11PM +, Dimitry T wrote: > P.S Is there any changes in performance if change in kernel conf i386 to > i686? Are you asking if you put into your kernel config file machine i686 ... that you'll see increased performance? There's no such thing as "machine

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-13 Thread Janne Johansson
2012/5/7 Dimitry T : > P.S Is there any changes in performance if change in kernel conf i386 to > i686? > "Some reasons why you should not build a custom kernel: > > You do not need to, normally. > You will not get a faster system." > > Can this applies to my question? Why don't you spend 15 minu

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-07 Thread Dimitry T
Nick, thanks! Sorry for maybe stupid question. I am a beginner in openbsd world. > Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 13:44:49 -0400 > From: n...@holland-consulting.net > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages > > On 05/07/2012 01:29 PM, Dimitry T wrote: >

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-07 Thread Dimitry T
misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages > Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 17:29:36 + > > Thank you all for the detailed answers. Is there any changes in compiling if > recompile kernel with option machine i686, now uname shows i386? > > > Date: Mon, 7

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/07/2012 01:29 PM, Dimitry T wrote: Thank you all for the detailed answers. Is there any changes in compiling if recompile kernel with option machine i686, now uname shows i386? Sure. Big change. You hurt yourself. Usually badly. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#WhySrc http://www.o

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-07 Thread Dimitry T
Thank you all for the detailed answers. Is there any changes in compiling if recompile kernel with option machine i686, now uname shows i386? > Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:03:40 +0100 > From: kevlar...@yahoo.co.uk > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs package

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 6 May 2012 04:03:46 +0200 ropers wrote: > As for security, since the Openbsd.org packages and ports both come > from the same source, there's no security advantage of ports over > packages unless you don't trust OpenBSD.org and actually read all of > the source code you compile (and, by th

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Dimitry T wrote: > After a long reading I am still confused. On OpenBSD FAQ recommend to use > packages, most users speak the same, but some speak that it is safer to > compile programs from ports and then programs have better performance. Did > I get the better pe

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-05 Thread Alan Corey
I think the remaining difference that's an advantage of ports is that you can configure them differently. At the outermost level you can set a flavor to enable/disable some feature, at a lower level you can modify the makefile, still lower you can get in there and edit the source. Back when y

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-05 Thread ropers
On 6 May 2012 01:15, Dimitry T wrote: > After a long reading I am still confused. On OpenBSD FAQ recommend to use packages, most users speak the same, but some speak that it is safer to compile programs from ports and then programs have better performance. Did I get the better performance of the p

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-05 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:15:13PM +, Dimitry T wrote: > After a long reading I am still confused. On OpenBSD FAQ recommend to > use packages, most users speak the same, but some speak that it is > safer to compile programs from ports and then programs have better > performance. It is not more

OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-05 Thread Dimitry T
After a long reading I am still confused. On OpenBSD FAQ recommend to use packages, most users speak the same, but some speak that it is safer to compile programs from ports and then programs have better performance. Did I get the better performance of the program on my hardware if i compile tha