Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:27:50 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portinstall question Message-ID: <20041024142750.GA80609@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200410240727.16654.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> References: <417B8791.20705@schmittnet.com> <200410240727.16654.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm>
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:27:16AM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> 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?
> 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.
portinstall is just portupgrade by another name. Infact, it's pretty
much identical to 'portungrade -f'. As to why anyone would want to
use portupgrade? That's a no-brainer. Just try it and you'll see.
To answer the original question, portupgrade or portinstall can select
a port to operate on in two ways. You can either give it the package
name -- with or without the version number -- or you can give it the
port origin -- ie. the port directory relative to /usr/ports. Now,
usually, the first part of package name is the same as the last part
of the port origin, but not always. For instance the www/apache2 port
installs apache-2.0.52_1. That similarity of names is what was
confusing the OP. He could either have issued the command:
# portinstall mysql-server-4.1.6
or
# portinstall databases/mysql41-server
and it all would have worked. The command he did use:
# portinstall mysql-server
worked for him, but that was partly a matter of luck, as it happened
to default to the 4.1.x branch of MySQL. (Maybe he had
WANT_MYSQL_VER=41 defined in /etc/make.conf or some such -- the
default is to install databases/mysql40-server)
To find out what package name a port will install, just:
% cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server
% make -V PKGNAME
portupgrade processes the /usr/ports/INDEX file into a database of
port origins and package names, which is why you always need an
up-to-date INDEX when using it.
Cheers,
Matthew
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