Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:12:03 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Jeffery Fernandez <forums@jefferyfernandez.id.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forcing upgrade of port Message-ID: <20050225090020.S1023@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <421ED648.5060805@jefferyfernandez.id.au> References: <421ED648.5060805@jefferyfernandez.id.au>
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On Feb 25 at 18:39, Jeffery Fernandez said: > I am trying to upgrade phpMyAdmin to the latest release 2.6.1-pl2 which has > a few bugs fixed (One of them being critical for my usage). > > I have updated the ports tree with cvsup but it has not picked up the newer > release (or maybe its not time to be updated in the ports tree.. not sure). > So how do I go about updating my phpMyAdmin port to the latest release ? Is > it just a matter of editing the "MakeFile" under > "/usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin" with the proper release number before "make > install clean" ? Any suggestions welcome. I've never had any success with a phpmyadmin installation from ports. In your place I'd uninstall your existing port, and go grab the latest/greatest from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php. There are a few apps I have gotten into the habit of getting directly, this is one of 'em. Another is php, and finally MySQL. Since I'm on the announce lists for all three, if another version comes along I can read the release notes in some detail, rather than trusting blindly and attempting to upgrade via ports...not that there's anything wrong with ports I *hasten* to add!! Everyone has their "pet apps" they want to know about in greater detail....those stated above are mine...YMMV of course. I know there are those with a liking for debate who will say; "well surely that applies to every application, wouldn't you want to read the detailed release notes/changelog for foo-9.x.x before installing it, I mean why use the ports collection at all?" I'm not going down that road. I'm just saying to you that there are likely many people who do the same with their own "chosen apps" and nothing beyond that. Don't anyone take this as being an invitation to emit/return a three month rambling series of non-sequiturs on the ports collection which inevitably leads to light switches and good environmental pracctices in pig farming. As always, just my $0.02 worth. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only ONE Fri Feb 25 09:11:00 CET 2005 9:11AM up 5 days, 16:21, 7 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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