Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:13:18 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: fbsdq <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gamin vs fam Message-ID: <20060129141318.ad9d19e5.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <43DCB258.70304@freebsd.org> References: <20060129122806.4e58ae2d.dick@nagual.st> <43DCB258.70304@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:17:28 +0100 Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> wrote: > dick hoogendijk schrieb: > > Running pkgdb -F everytime is not pleasant. What is (are) the > > advantage (s) of gamin over fam? Is it wise to change to gamin? > > The recent change of the USE_FAM default was done without proper > testing > - others have already reported problems with gamin, especially in the > case of courier-imap. > > You can however avoid the pkgdb -F dance (if you compile from ports): > Set WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam in /etc/make.conf - this will change the > default back to fam. OK, understood. However, as I understand it, portupgrade (the one I use) does not look at /etc/make.conf so I still have to put WITH_FAM_SYSTEM="YES" into pkgtools.conf and don't know exactly for which programs ;-( This is not good.. Aahhrrgg <g> -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 ++ The Power to Serve
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