Date: 03 Aug 2002 04:19:04 +0200 From: Ketanu <ketanu@wanadoo.fr> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading by ports or packages [pkg_fetch][portupgrade] Message-ID: <878z3o1y7b.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org>
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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 <www.oreillynet.com/BSD/> 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 <ketanu@wanadoo.fr> - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x20D90C12 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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