From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 10:48:13 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 6C26B106566C for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:48:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2798FC17 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.85] (93-97-172-73.zone5.bethere.co.uk [93.97.172.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg29.ifdnrg.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p18Am9tF078635; Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:48:10 GMT (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4D511F67.1000909@ifdnrg.com> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:48:07 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikael Bak References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> <4D5033C1.1010604@ifdnrg.com> <4D511C0D.2000100@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: <4D511C0D.2000100@inbox.lv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 10:48:13 -0000 On 08/02/2011 10:33, Mikael Bak wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Paul Macdonald wrote: >> On 07/02/2011 16:44, Mikael Bak wrote: >>> 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? >>> >> I'm pretty sure you can't do this, *unless* there's someone actually >> tracking a seperate port on that version. ( i didn't check but it >> doesn't sound like it from your post). >> Aplogies, i'd misread your question, and there is a seperate branch in /usr/ports/mail/postfix27, I'm not sure how you'd fool the ports mgt tools in the way you want, would it not be easier just to deinstall the port and do a make install in postfix27? (others may know a 'better' way) Paul. ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07534206249 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA -------------------------