One of the things I've always appreciated about them is the fact that (usually) the necessary patches are pre-applied... and the source is built automagically. Quite fascinating. [purist plug] I've never really cared that much for the various flavors of Linux anyway and have pretty much always been a *BSD fanatic so far as my servers go [/purist plug]. Of course, if anyone were to look at my message headers, they'd notice right away that I'm writing this on a Win32 machine -- I'm such a hypocrite :-) -- but I do have my reasons.
I too love the ports. They are much easier to manage and edit than rpms, I have NEVER had a problem until now with using the BSD ports.....
(BTW, speaking of the packages, you might want to make sure you have gmake installed. Sometimes BSD make barfs for silly reasons during a build...)
There is a 40 mysql port, but I will try the source install instead. I hopeHeh, I can tell the ports temptation is there still :-D
it works :)
~Benjamin
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