Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:57:41 -0400 From: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: Matt Singerman <matt.singerman@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adjusting configuration options during port installation? Message-ID: <44274695.6010709@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060327002523.65568.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060327002523.65568.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com>
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Peter wrote: > --- Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> wrote: > > >> Matt Singerman wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am installing an upgrade to the Cyrus email server. Our existing >>> email boxes are in a database format that is no longer used by >>> >> Cyrus; >> >>> however, there is a configuration option which will instruct the >>> >> new >> >>> version to use the old database format. They are >>> >>> --with-mboxlist-db=berkeley and --with-seen-db=flat >>> >>> Is there a way to tell the FreeBSD port of Cyrus to use these >>> >> options? >> >>> I am not extremely familiar with the ports system. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Matt >>> _______________ >>> >>> >> Hi, >> >> Yes, you can pass the options along but it depends >> which method you are using to manage your ports. >> Are you using make ..., portupgrade ..., or perhaps >> portmanager ... >> >> Checkout the portupgrade -m switch. >> > > No. The initial install options do not depend on what port management > utility > The intended meaning of my statement was not that the initial install options depend upon what port management utility a person is using but rather that how you pass those options through to the underlying make does depend on which port management utility you are using. > you are using. However, you do need to prepare for a possible future > upgrade of the port that was installed with non-default compile > options. > If you are using portupgrade then you need to edit pkgtools.conf. If > you > are using portmanager then you need to edit pkgtools.conf or pm-020.conf. > --Duane
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