Mix'n'match between packages an ports?

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015, at 07:51, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2015.06.30 06:53, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> > Here's my question: Is a "mix and match" between binary and
> > source-installation (pkg.. vs. "make / portupgrade") possible on the
> > same machine, or is it one or the other?
> There is no difference at all between the two, especially since staging
> in
> ports became mandatory. Using ports directly builds a package and then
> installs
> it. Problems occur when packages are built from different ports trees,
> however.

I don't think this was stated clearly enough:

If you're going to mix packages and ports you will want to make sure
your ports tree is the exact same svn revision as the one the packages
were built from. If you stray away from this you have to be very careful
and verify nothing in the ports tree has changed that could affect you.