From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 26 23:06:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCBD16A41F for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8622A43D46 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:06:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip01.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.5]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IWR0020MC7LGRD0@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:06:57 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip01.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:06:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:06:01 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <54682af50603261010nbc004eby2e3fc19972f1d652@mail.gmail.com> To: Matt Singerman Message-id: <44271E59.6030209@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <54682af50603261010nbc004eby2e3fc19972f1d652@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adjusting configuration options during port installation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:06:57 -0000 Matt Singerman wrote: > Hi all, > > I am installing an upgrade to the Cyrus email server. Our existing > email boxes are in a database format that is no longer used by Cyrus; > however, there is a configuration option which will instruct the new > version to use the old database format. They are > > --with-mboxlist-db=berkeley and --with-seen-db=flat > > Is there a way to tell the FreeBSD port of Cyrus to use these options? > I am not extremely familiar with the ports system. > > Thanks, > > Matt > _______________ > Hi, Yes, you can pass the options along but it depends which method you are using to manage your ports. Are you using make ..., portupgrade ..., or perhaps portmanager ... Checkout the portupgrade -m switch. There may also be config and config-recursive targets for make.