On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:01:56 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:48:09AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote:
>> The postfix port has stable and snapshot versions to choose from.
>>
>> I'm building on 4.4 release using 4.4 release ports tree and trying to
>> get a 4.3 release box with postfix to update to 4.4 (that worked well)
>> and to the snapshot version of postfix that comes with the 4.4 ports
>> tree.
>>
>> Eventually I built the stable postfix for 4.4 and the (was)4.3 (now)
>> 4.4 machine saw the postfix-stable as an update option and took it.
>>
>> The puzzle is: How do I get the update to Postfix-snapshot (for 4.4) to
>> apply?
>
>You've to run pkg_add -r manually. pkg_add -u looks at the subdir
>comment and possible @pkgpath markers, it doesn't recognize any
>relationship between mail/postfix/{stable,snapshot}.
>
That works like a charm! The best part of your message though was the
explanation of the mechanism that caused the "problem". That never was
obvious in my manpage scanning or other search attempts.
We live to learn.
Thanks heaps Kili.
Rod/
Rod/
>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
