From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Dec 17 01:02:50 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678A0A491B4 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:02:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisstankevitz@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x22d.google.com (mail-ig0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39E021CE7 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:02:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisstankevitz@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ig0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id ph11so169237795igc.1 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:02:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=GBAE6cOImRVAN+f6SBXFuPTF7pfSAsIoEKbdbCKAZwk=; b=jDTfWlY3lGbp7WYQAIL+YftQLCZFR5NZb+aQSJLPKdmZGvhmnLbdSZdfCksSHCCh9m smShIm+ZFSWeVS1I3q1cOFutSrbl9FcjrdFUqxVP29vi1eVO/05312rOYph490msVUfW IRHBjN79D4YIQWlgKU8dTd8EIsPlN/aByhtJBn295BxlrWnIq2BGhg9JgaH4WfIWX7kv z/PtaGmjRuIBvQ9cMp8XOhORXVcgB+htONvaLckYhND3iQiYjd6nweYw+59jOb2BF/u/ rCKOjL3QnqCxMmekLKiNQd/UQUYzuxNrHm3vCA70vtPTzdrNQjrX7ZaPNmGLwLUXwvNi e1sw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.153.79 with SMTP id b76mr25452397ioe.71.1450314169725; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:02:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.79.119.152 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:02:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20151216204758.527efa26316df1e337fb136b@sohara.org> References: <5670B7C8.5000603@columbus.rr.com> <56711F73.1020606@FreeBSD.org> <20151216204758.527efa26316df1e337fb136b@sohara.org> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:02:49 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Migrating from ports to pkg From: Chris Stankevitz To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:02:50 -0000 On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > When there are only a small number of ports with special options > it's quite easy to just build the essential ports using make missing to get > a list of packages to install before building each port. Just don't forget > to pkg lock all the customised packages so they don't get replaced by > standard ones during an upgrade. Got it, thank you, Chris