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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:54:19 -0700
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice 3.2 fails to build on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64
Message-ID:  <b269bc571003231054n49f63089macebd27336ca159a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BA8FAD7.6000902@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Sean McAfee <
smcafee@collaborativefusion.com> wrote:

> O. Hartmann wrote:
>
>> As I mentioned, I did not and I can't risk deinstalling the working OO
>> first and then installing and probably a failing OO 3.2.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> O. Hartmann
>>
>
> You can use `pkg_create -b name_of_port-with_version` to create a binary
> backup.  If you can't get 3.2 installed, you just run pkg_add on the
> resulting tbz and you're back in business.
>
> I do this whenever I upgrade OO, Firefox, Thunderbird, or anything other
> program I can't wait around for while I freshly compile.


portmaster and  portupgrade both include a -b switch as well, which will
create a backup package before uninstalling the port to install the new
version.

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com



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