From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 3 15:37:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931A537B405 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D5943E3B for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:37:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D49FD32000B6480 for newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:37:50 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (80.14.10.196) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D49FF79000AA47E for newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:37:50 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g73McoGO000126 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:38:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: (from michael@localhost) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g732J4G3062907; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 04:19:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: ketanu.dyndns.org: michael set sender to ketanu@wanadoo.fr using -f To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading by ports or packages [pkg_fetch][portupgrade] From: Ketanu Organization: (none) Date: 03 Aug 2002 04:19:04 +0200 Message-ID: <878z3o1y7b.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was told by a friend that `portupgrade' could be configured so that it automatically choose between packages and ports when upgrading, e.g. i want to say it `upgrade general software with packages when available' and `upgrade some specific software with ports and a specific configuration' so that i can have some software (such as the ion window manager) home compiled with some patches that are not in package distribution, or some (such as pari-gp and scilab which are scientific calculous) home compiled to take advantage of some host-specific capabilities. Reading related manpages and configuration files, browsing FreeBSD books/articles, Google and i did not found any reference to this hability. The only idea i got is to write a specific script to be called as pkg_fetch who refuses to fetch some packages, so that portupgrade fallback in building the ports (such as suggested in portupgrade(1), at description of the `--use-packages' option, and pkg_fetch(1)). Does someone knows a right way to achieve these effects ? -- Ketanu - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x20D90C12 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message