From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 27 14:45:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66FCFBF6 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BBEA1FBE for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:45:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=Xis9DOS5EvMdQcGMLL/mDIbJZloOksfVajtZWH7wQjg=; b=DvbCM4Xj6JS1/tzPIAui39cLBe8tj1A44ij5o9C55RmlTIJpDvmYX2zBnNMgsoWDE7bExOg/uYptwEQtlpcBb+5rmPzgqGx9jrjpbtsQWkCPLnPbUk4XKzdXPkCglittKE7jlyN8lKKvgGVhGW+k/kt/GOk8PdtV0CTbWhyPwgE=; Received: from [39.217.157.8] (port=62954 helo=X220.alogt.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1W7nRd-000xcs-Ga; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:45:51 -0700 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:45:41 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky To: _1126 Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] weird error messages with various ports Message-ID: <20140127224541.48885efb@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20140127141742.GB9272@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> References: <20140127120519.Horde.zk6gGzrJZ8n-kUHavzPiTw1@webmail.df.eu> <20140127191858.78a3fa5d@X220.alogt.com> <20140127114919.GA66024@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127200326.026e6c35@X220.alogt.com> <20140127121011.GA68344@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127203002.37fbb036@X220.alogt.com> <20140127133508.GA9272@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127214440.4075ae45@X220.alogt.com> <20140127141742.GB9272@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:45:52 -0000 Hi, On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:17:42 +0100 _1126 wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:44:40PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > That leads me to another question: Is there a way to do this while > > > preserving the configurations I made to the ports? > > > > > if you have a normal installation, just move /use/ports > > to /usr/ports.whatever and create an empty /usr/ports. > > > > You can then checkout the ports tree with svn. > > I did just that. > > But it seems to me that I have now lost (aka 'it is in a different > copy of the ports tree) all the configuration changes I did to various > ports, like enabling patches in mail/mutt or which video drivers > x11/xorg should install... Is there a way to copy those from one copy > of a ports tree to another? > > Or am I just overlooking something here? ;) you should have them in the other ports tree named /usr/ports.whatever Erich