From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 12:27:23 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 DE1F116A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:27:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B13EC43D39 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:27:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldj1066@fastmail.fm) Received: from unknown (HELO pres7000.mylan.net) (donaldj@ameritech.net@69.211.94.237 with plain) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2004 12:27:23 -0000 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:27:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <417B8791.20705@schmittnet.com> In-Reply-To: <417B8791.20705@schmittnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410240727.16654.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: 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 12:27:24 -0000 On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: > 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? > > _______________________________________________ Hi Bill, I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to install new software, rather than (using your example port): cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41 make install Is using portinstall magical in some way? If you use the make install method, there isn't any guesswork as to what name to use. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm