Is there any noticeable speed difference using ports to make clean installs oppose to pkg_add?
ahavatar said:I'm following 8-STABLE, and I have no other choice but ports because 8-STABLE has usually no amd64 binaries available for updates.
phoenix said:
The package building cluster runs almost continuously, building packages for all architectures. HOWEVER, it builds based on a snapshot of the ports tree, and will always lag behind the versions available in the ports tree. Sometimes by up to a month or three.
IOW, binary packages will always be behind in versions compared to the ports tree.
Not any more, as far as I know packages are built on a weekly basis.Is this still true? By up to three months? Gee, we should work with the folks at BOINC to build a package building distributed cluster. I'd donate a bunch of CPU to help.