From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 18:22:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F291065670 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:22:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FACC8FC18 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29660 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2011 18:22:43 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Feb 2011 18:22:43 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E9EDB50829; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:22:40 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Mikael Bak References: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:22:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D50217A.6030700@inbox.lv> (Mikael Bak's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:44:42 +0100") Message-ID: <44aai7vh5b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow a port of a specific major verion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:22:44 -0000 Mikael Bak writes: > Hi list, > > I searched for this in the handbook, but without any hits. Google gave > me nada too. > > I have a machine running FreeBSD 7.3 and Postfix 2.7.2 installed from > ports. Unfortunately when I installed Postfix I did this: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix > make install clean > > Now when Postfix 2.8.0 is released the above path in the ports tree > points to a Postfix version I do not yet want to install. I would like > to follow Postfix 2.7.x for a while. > > So my question is: How can I make the ports system act as if I had > installed Postfix like this?: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix27 > make install clean > > Is there a way to tell the ports database to "follow" and older version > of Postfix without rebuild the entire port again? You can edit the package database by hand, but it will probably take a lot less of your time to build the whole port again. [More of the computer's time, but that's generally a much cheaper resource.]