From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 10:44:25 2004 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 EC7B216A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:44:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from idesigns.net (idesigns.net [209.239.38.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7883543D1D for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:44:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from software@schmittnet.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ct-seymour2d-19.wtrbct.adelphia.net [68.71.172.19]) by idesigns.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9OAiMGZ012020 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:44:24 -0400 Message-ID: <417B8791.20705@schmittnet.com> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:44:33 -0400 From: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6+ (Windows/20041018) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Portinstall question 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: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:44:26 -0000 I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because there seems to be more guesswork involved that I expected there to be. How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under /usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among others are mysql323-server, mysql40-server, mysql41-server, and mysql50-server. In the Makefile for mysql41 it states PORTNAME?= mysql. But trying "portinstall mysql" or "portinstall mysql41" or "portinstall mysql41-server" all result in a message that the port doesn't exist. The command that works is "portinstall mysql-server", which I found with a basic google search, but I don't find that in the descriptions or Makefiles. Looking just at what is in the ports tree (or anywhere else on a 4.9 system), where would I properly find that name?