Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-07 Thread Eric Devolder
I know this may seem weird to downgrade. Actually I'm working in the information security area. I want to setup an old (and vulnerable) wu-ftpd release, with specific compilation options. But I want it to be as close as possible to the freebsdb package. Thank you to everybody for supporting me on

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread John Oxley
Sorry, I lost the beginning of this thread, On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:50:40PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Eric Devolder wrote: [ ... ] My specific questions are: * how to fetch the source code of a port? and especially from another release? Look in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk There are

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Devolder
Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I refresh the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my /usr/ports reflects only ports

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/6/05, Eric Devolder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I refresh the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eric Devolder wrote: Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I refresh the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my

how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-05 Thread Eric Devolder
Hi there, I'm newby to FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0 and here is my wish: I would like to fetch the sources for an old port release ( I know I can grab it from ftp-archive.freebsd.org http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org but I don't know how to fetch the sources with freebsd command line

how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-05 Thread Eric Devolder
Hi there, I'm newby to FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0 and here is my wish: I would like to fetch the sources for an old port release ( I know I can grab it from ftp-archive.freebsd.org but I don't know how to fetch the sources with freebsd command line tools), change the makefile

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eric Devolder wrote: [ ... ] My specific questions are: * how to fetch the source code of a port? and especially from another release? cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix # or whatever port you want make fetch If you want to fetch a different version of the port, you can change the Makefile in