On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:15:13PM +0000, 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 safer and the programs don't have better performance. Please, ignore the users misinformed. > Did I get the better performance of the program on my > hardware if i compile that program on my hardware from ports? I try to > compare md5 of package compiled from ports with package downloaded > from package server, and values b b do not match. Surely I wrong > somewhere, but I would like someone to explain me packages vs ports. The hash is different because the files are different but the *content* is the same. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
