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Date:      18 May 2005 18:45:22 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>
Cc:        Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
Subject:   Re: GNU cp location
Message-ID:  <44br78i265.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050518165729.J62516@mail.goinet.com>
References:  <200505181212.47900.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <200505181332.31712.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <44psvoi4ut.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050518165729.J62516@mail.goinet.com>

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Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> writes:

> Yeah, I've done this recently, it works beautifully, albeit a bit time
> consuming.  I wish I could throw out there a big sign that says more
> or less:
> 
> "cvsup your ports tree, install using portinstall"
> 
> Rather than people constantly trying to build manually from
> tarball. :\

Well, the ports system doesn't seem to have the precise version that
the OP was building...

>             That and teach people to put their build flags in
> /etc/make.conf so that portupgrade 'remembers' how you built it last
> time, like so:
> 
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/mail/cclient}
> WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT=yes
> .endif
> 
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/mail/imap-uw}
> WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT=yes
> .endif
> 
> The tricks you learn over time though. :)

For most portupgrade users, I think I prefer to recommend configuring
the pkgtools.conf file for that purpose.  But then it *only* works if
you're having portupgrade do the build.



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