Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:57:55 -0400 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Guido Falsi <madpilot@freebsd.org> Cc: ports <ports@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/ports/UPDATING entry September 04, 2013 Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOsGLe1TU-CkmDRkwU%2BGt2w60X8yWwKsAW_OFEWi_N-MBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <525BA085.5060500@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2BWntOviJu6OqHrj_7ePVWrMu4QqnL1Oopk=agTk7=T-H_FP2w@mail.gmail.com> <525BA085.5060500@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Guido Falsi <madpilot@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 10/13/13 18:40, Joe Nosay wrote: > >> Will the pkg upgrade work with applications built from ports and not pkg >> add $APPLICATION? >> > > I'm not sure What you mean. > > the "pkg upgrade" command works only using binary packages, which can come > and "official" repository or your own one. > > This is going to work. > > If you have a system where you used to build packages yourself and want to > change to binary packages, things are more complicated. > > First of all if you have any port built with custom options you are going > to loose those customizations, since the binary packages don't have them. > > I think pkg will try to handle that upgrade but I have never tried, it > could work but you could also end up with come misalignment in your ports. > > It is generally not a good idea to mix ports and pkgs, it can work but > problems will come up. > > -- > Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> > Thanks much.
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