From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 06:28:04 2008 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 08DB9106564A for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) Received: from rex.goodking.ca (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1c:66::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18C48FC08 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:28:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) Received: from goodking6 (goodking6 [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:117::2]) by rex.goodking.ca (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAL6S2BL062990; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:28:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) From: Thomas Abthorpe Organization: FreeBSD.GoodKing.Ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dino_vliet@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:28:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <661300.86973.qm@web51109.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <661300.86973.qm@web51109.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Face: /|[9,PbEOB6g>?2^*Sc|"~6:Ro"O>Nv\Rfkv\42g)=?utf-8?q?TuAYG=26+bD=5CpCJTX31s=5Fp=7Bc7=5D5a=2ED=2E=0A=09Y?=@QddKu_I[XB8; euK=^[=L1I#]rgi[0jgz^4qCTwlj]3kJ)]vc}O"HrA14hN)=?utf-8?q?aXewJPTi=7C=0A=09Pt=7BS3=23Vw4x-?="/:& X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (rex.goodking.ca [IPv6:2001:470:1c:66::2]); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:28:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: Subject: Re: install gamin in stead of fam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:28:04 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On November 20, 2008 06:28:21 pm Dino Vliet wrote: > The approaches I can think of are: > > 1) get rid of fam and everything that requires it with pkg_deinstall -R > fam* , then adjust /etc/make.conf to have WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin and > reinstall all above packages one by one > > 2) write a shell script to automate all those steps above > > > So my question boils down to this, am I on the good track? Are there > other alternatives (or caveats) > > Thanks Ater you set WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin, you should be able to perform portupgrade -fo devel/gamin fam This will replace the software and the appropriate dependancies. I did this very same thing but in reverse, gamin->fam :) HTH Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkmVPEACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qCxkgCfVatJyU/kBEpGrwVBTqfKqz1f +t4AniT1K+d4H6Sq0pVb7brj9kWKiUTL =vAoC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----