From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 10:39:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C071065672 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:39:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mbak@inbox.lv) Received: from thor.iszerviz.hu (thor.iszerviz.hu [62.77.131.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C88B28FC1C for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.2.2.50] (m0n0.serverbank.hu [62.77.131.200]) by thor.iszerviz.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DCF244FEB3 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:39:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D511D49.4010704@inbox.lv> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:39:05 +0100 From: Mikael Bak User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:39:07 -0000 Hi Lowell, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Mikael Bak writes: > >> Hi list, >> >> I searched for this in the handbook, but without any hits. Google gave >> me nada too. >> >> I have a machine running FreeBSD 7.3 and Postfix 2.7.2 installed from >> ports. Unfortunately when I installed Postfix I did this: >> >> cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix >> make install clean >> >> Now when Postfix 2.8.0 is released the above path in the ports tree >> points to a Postfix version I do not yet want to install. I would like >> to follow Postfix 2.7.x for a while. >> >> So my question is: How can I make the ports system act as if I had >> installed Postfix like this?: >> >> cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix27 >> make install clean >> >> Is there a way to tell the ports database to "follow" and older version >> of Postfix without rebuild the entire port again? > > You can edit the package database by hand, but it will probably take a > lot less of your time to build the whole port again. [More of the > computer's time, but that's generally a much cheaper resource.] > Thanks for the info. I was not aware I could just install the same software over the other without first removing it. Shouldn't I do that? I would not want to end up with a broken software or a broken ports database. If I would set my mind on editing the ports database by hand, where should I look for it? TIA, Mikael