Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:22:40 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion Message-ID: <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> (Mikael Bak's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:44:42 %2B0100") References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv>
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Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv> writes: > Hi list, > > I searched for this in the handbook, but without any hits. Google gave > me nada too. > > I have a machine running FreeBSD 7.3 and Postfix 2.7.2 installed from > ports. Unfortunately when I installed Postfix I did this: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix > make install clean > > Now when Postfix 2.8.0 is released the above path in the ports tree > points to a Postfix version I do not yet want to install. I would like > to follow Postfix 2.7.x for a while. > > So my question is: How can I make the ports system act as if I had > installed Postfix like this?: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix27 > make install clean > > Is there a way to tell the ports database to "follow" and older version > of Postfix without rebuild the entire port again? You can edit the package database by hand, but it will probably take a lot less of your time to build the whole port again. [More of the computer's time, but that's generally a much cheaper resource.]
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