Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 09:49:03 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple port versions Message-ID: <20070103154903.GH46561@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20070103153342.KXTZ60.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> References: <20070103153342.KXTZ60.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>
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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
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