Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-18 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 17 October 2008, Rod Whitworth wrote: > >Your use of the terms "stable" and "snapshot" above are not > > particularly clear, or more likely, I'm just reading it wrong. > >  The postfix port has stable and snapshot versions to choose from. > > I'm building on 4.4 release using 4.4 release

Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:51:29 Oct 18, Marc Espie wrote: > > The details of the update mechanism are documented in pkg_add's internals, > specifically OpenBSD::Intro(3p). > This is an excellent resource. Largely unknown I think. Will it be a good idea to add it to the FAQ under the section on porting or checklist

Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:51:29 +0200, Marc Espie wrote: >On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:14:53AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> 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

Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:14:53AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: > 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. The details of the update mecha

Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
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 wit

Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
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 snapsh

Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:21:26 -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: >Your use of the terms "stable" and "snapshot" above are not particularly >clear, or more likely, I'm just reading it wrong. > The postfix port has stable and snapshot versions to choose from. I'm building on 4.4 release using 4.4 release

Re: Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 17 October 2008, Rod Whitworth wrote: > I had postfix (stable, no flavors) from 4.3 on there and I had built > a snapshot version from ports for 4.4. and the pkg_add said it could > not find an update for postfix. > > When I built the 4.4 postfix stable version it updated but I really > e

Upgrading port - choosing new version.

2008-10-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
I am trying something new with a new 4.4 (CDs arrived!) setup and I have a puzzle. I have a build-machine and I did an install of all the sets (bar games) plus the ports tree. I did "make package" for a small port I use that never gets onto the issue CD. Sweet. I then populated /usr/ports/package