From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 11:26:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D39106564A for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:26:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from p.christias@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (ulysses.noc.ntua.gr [IPv6:2001:648:2000:de::230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EE18FC0C for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:26:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from p.christias@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from [147.102.220.50] (hellboy.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.220.50]) (authenticated bits=0) by ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3FBQ7u3047285 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:26:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from p.christias@noc.ntua.gr) Message-ID: <49E5C40A.50003@noc.ntua.gr> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:24:58 +0300 From: Panagiotis Christias Organization: NTUA NOC User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <49E51B4B.1090700@noc.ntua.gr> <20090415015738.69a03702@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090415015738.69a03702@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (ulysses.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.230]); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:26:07 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on ulysses.noc.ntua.gr X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to "portinstall -P" packages that alter ther names via PKGNAMESUFFIX? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:26:10 -0000 RW wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:59 +0300 > Panagiotis Christias wrote: > >> The setup works quite well and has saved us a lot of time and effort. >> Currently we are looking for ways to automate as much as possible the >> whole process. One of the problems we face is the initial >> installation of packages that alter their names, like >> sendmail+tls+sasl2+ldap+db46 and openldap-sasl-server. Seems like >> there is no obvious way to "portinstall -P" such packages. > > This is sometimes handled through slave ports e.g. > net/cvsup-without-gui. > > If there aren't too many variations you might create some local slave > ports. Wouldn't that require to create the ports INDEX file locally? -- Panagiotis J. Christias Network Management Center p.christias@noc.ntua.gr National Technical Univ. of Athens, GREECE