I will be upgrading my ports tree from 4.1-release to 4.2-release when 4.2
comes out. This is my first ports upgrade. So I was wondering if my action
plan looks right:
- backup my existing 4.1 /usr/ports directory
- untar the 4.2 ports tgz file in /usr/ports
- go to /usr/ports/path/to/applicatio
On 10/09/2007, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - go to /usr/ports/path/to/application to update each application - do I need
> to do this for each individual application I installed from the ports
> tree? Is there any
> automated way of doing this?
Read about -u for pkg_add (man pkg_add).
When
On 2007/09/10 16:13, Chris wrote:
> - also is there any way to distinguish applications I installed from the
> package list and applications I installed from the ports tree?
No; ports just create packages. If you 'make install' this checks
/usr/ports/packages/whatever/foo.tgz is up-to-date and b
On 2007/09/10 12:48, nicodache wrote:
> package are nice, but hwo do they handle flavor ?
for some applications, packages are built with various (at least the
more popular) FLAVORs. for others, you need to build the packages from
ports yourself.
> because I installed a system without X, and each
package are nice, but hwo do they handle flavor ?
because I installed a system without X, and each time in try to
install (by ports) a new software, it tries to compile it using X, and
thus fails.
are package compiled using standard choice, thus using X I don't have
? or are package built in a more
On 10/09/2007, nicodache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> package are nice, but hwo do they handle flavor ?
> because I installed a system without X, and each time in try to
> install (by ports) a new software, it tries to compile it using X, and
> thus fails.
> are package compiled using standard choi
not supported as in "we don't care if you have problem with it", or
not supported as in "it will certainly end with a segfault" ?
On 9/10/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> building from ports without X is not supported (including those
> that don't need X to run).
nicodache schrieb:
On 9/10/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
building from ports without X is not supported (including those
that don't need X to run).
>
> not supported as in "we don't care if you have problem with it", or
> not supported as in "it will certainly end with a segfa
nicodache schrieb:
ok.
so you all advice me to install 4.2 with xbase.
and with that, I can install packages/ports with no_x11, and things
that needs X parts will work correctly ?
I'll go for that :)
You can install no_x11 packages without xbase AFAIR. But you can't build
them from ports.
G
ok.
so you all advice me to install 4.2 with xbase.
and with that, I can install packages/ports with no_x11, and things
that needs X parts will work correctly ?
I'll go for that :)
On 9/10/07, Markus Hennecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> nicodache schrieb:
> > On 9/10/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL
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