From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 27 01:58:38 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 4657916A423 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:58:38 +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 DE98C43D46 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:58:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip03.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.15]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IWR00KROK5I6BK0@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:58:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip03.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:58:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:57:41 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <20060327002523.65568.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com> To: Peter Message-id: <44274695.6010709@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: <20060327002523.65568.qmail@web60023.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: Matt Singerman , 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: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:58:38 -0000 Peter wrote: > --- Duane Whitty wrote: > > >> 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. >> > > No. The initial install options do not depend on what port management > utility > The intended meaning of my statement was not that the initial install options depend upon what port management utility a person is using but rather that how you pass those options through to the underlying make does depend on which port management utility you are using. > you are using. However, you do need to prepare for a possible future > upgrade of the port that was installed with non-default compile > options. > If you are using portupgrade then you need to edit pkgtools.conf. If > you > are using portmanager then you need to edit pkgtools.conf or pm-020.conf. > --Duane