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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:30:49 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        ewdafa <ewdafa@ewdafa.b0rk.co.uk>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: @comment ORIGIN
Message-ID:  <20010201123049.Z479@puck.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <005201c08ba8$3ac799a0$0a00a8c0@reevolved.net>; from ewdafa@ewdafa.b0rk.co.uk on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:06:59PM -0000
References:  <005201c08ba8$3ac799a0$0a00a8c0@reevolved.net>

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:06:59PM -0000, ewdafa wrote:
> I found that mysql323-client and mysql323-server both have a strange
> Makefile scheme thats different to other ports e.g.

The master-slave style of this port is actually fairly common.

> It seems the client is just a kind of wrapper around the server, but, it
> would still be handy to have the proper information in there. Hm.
> This at the moment is the only thing breaking my app, apart from that it
> seems to work quite well.

Use make -V to get the variables you need.

> I was thinking, is there a way to easily update packages?
> At the moment i 'make deinstall' and then 'make clean; make install', as =
im
> not so keen on what 'make reinstall' is actually doing.
> How do you guys do it?

I do it like that; you may wish to check out pkg_update(1), although atm
that's only in -current.  But it's just a perl script...

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