Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:13:29 -0800 From: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <edu07643@yahoo.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about portupgrade Message-ID: <20020405141329.F7074@rain.macguire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020405215915.496E014F6E2@server11.safepages.com>; from edu07643@yahoo.com.br on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:59:15PM -0500 References: <20020405215915.496E014F6E2@server11.safepages.com>
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* E. J. Cerejo (edu07643@yahoo.com.br) [020405 14:00]:
> I just used the portupgrade utility to upgrade some installed ports and
> noticed that it makes a backup of the old port, does anybody know where
> portupgrade puts that tar ball for the old port backup?
>
> Thanks
According to the manpage,
7. Back up the current installation of the given package using
pkg_tarup(1). Note that the backup tarball will be very large
if the package is a big monster like XFree86. Please ensure
you have sufficient disk space (refer to the ENVIRONMENT sec-
tion to know where) to save the backup tarball. (Perhaps a new
option to omit backups will be added in the future)
PKG_TMPDIR
TMPDIR (In that order) Temporary directory where portupgrade
attempts to create backup files. If neither is defined,
``/var/tmp'' is used. Note that this directory must
have enough free space when upgrading a package. (See the
TECHNICAL DETAILS above)
--
Benjamin Krueger
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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