From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 00:26:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2DE37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-r01.mx.aol.com (imo-r01.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CBD43F75 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:26:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edinho64@netscape.net) Received: from edinho64@netscape.net by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.21.) id g.1b4.58670ac (22682); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 03:26:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netscape.net (pool-68-160-106-19.nwrk.east.verizon.net [68.160.106.19]) by air-in04.mx.aol.com (v92.17) with ESMTP id MAILININ43-589a3e9bb4222bd; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 03:26:26 -0500 Message-ID: <3E9BB421.4040105@netscape.net> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 03:26:25 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kris@obsecurity.org References: <3E9BAD8C.3030806@netscape.net> <20030415070640.GC62600@rot13.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: portupgrade "---> Backing up the old version" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:26:40 -0000 kris@obsecurity.org wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:58:20AM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > >>While using portupgrade I noticed before it deinstalls the old port it >>says something like "---> Backing up the old version" and then it goes >>on deinstalling and installing the new version. Where does this backup >>go? I looked at the man page and it says something like /var/tmp but I >>went into that directory and there is nothing in there relating to a >>port back! Does portupgrade delete that backup after the successful >>install of the new version? > > > Yes. > > Kris I'm running out of space in /var, how do you specify an alternate path for that backup?