From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 15:49:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B09016A40F for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:49:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B33713C44C for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:49:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id l03Fn30Q086277; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:49:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:49:03 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Vizion Message-ID: <20070103154903.GH46561@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070103153342.KXTZ60.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070103153342.KXTZ60.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple port versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:49:05 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 03), Vizion said: > Just been doing a check on installed applications. > > pkg_info shows multiple installed versions of autoconf, automake, db > & gnupg. viz: > > autoconf-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms > autoconf-2.53_3 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms > autoconf-2.59_2 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms > automake-1.4.6_2 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.4) > automake-1.5_2,1 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.5) > automake-1.9.6 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.9) > db4-4.0.14_1,1 The Berkeley DB package, revision 4 > db42-4.2.52_5 The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.2 > gnupg-1.4.6_3 The GNU Privacy Guard > gnupg-2.0.1 The GNU Privacy Guard Those are all separate ports that don't conflict with each other. You can check by running pkg_info -L on a couple of them and see that they either install into their own subdirectories, or have version prefixes on their files. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com