Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:39:05 +0100 From: Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion Message-ID: <4D511D49.4010704@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Hi Lowell, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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.] > Thanks for the info. I was not aware I could just install the same software over the other without first removing it. Shouldn't I do that? I would not want to end up with a broken software or a broken ports database. If I would set my mind on editing the ports database by hand, where should I look for it? TIA, Mikael
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