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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:57:55 -0400
From:      Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com>
To:        Guido Falsi <madpilot@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports <ports@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/ports/UPDATING entry September 04, 2013
Message-ID:  <CA%2BWntOsGLe1TU-CkmDRkwU%2BGt2w60X8yWwKsAW_OFEWi_N-MBg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Guido Falsi <madpilot@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 10/13/13 18:40, Joe Nosay wrote:
>
>> Will the pkg upgrade work with applications built from ports and not pkg
>> add $APPLICATION?
>>
>
> I'm not sure What you mean.
>
> the "pkg upgrade" command works only using binary packages, which can come
> and "official" repository or your own one.
>
> This is going to work.
>
> If you have a system where you used to build packages yourself and want to
> change to binary packages, things are more complicated.
>
> First of all if you have any port built with custom options you are going
> to loose those customizations, since the binary packages don't have them.
>
> I think pkg will try to handle that upgrade but I have never tried, it
> could work but you could also end up with come misalignment in your ports.
>
> It is generally not a good idea to mix ports and pkgs, it can work but
> problems will come up.
>
> --
> Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
>



Thanks much.



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