Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:08:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> To: Jacob Smullyan <smulloni@bracknell.smullyan.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local ports? Message-ID: <20030901190442.R7488@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20030901165330.GA10773@bracknell.smullyan.org> References: <20030901165330.GA10773@bracknell.smullyan.org>
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Jacob Smullyan wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm coming to FreeBSD after using Gentoo Linux extensively for a year > and half, so I'm wondering whether some features of Gentoo have > equivalents in FreeBSD ports: > > 1. is it possible to specify a particular version of a port that you > want to install, or is there only one version of a port available at > any one time in a particular distribution branch? Depends. In most cases, you have one version at a specific time, but things like samba, there are the 2.2 and 3.0 simultaneously available. There is the utility portupgrade, which also does a great job in updating the ports tree, therefore keeping your apps up to date. > 2. is it possible to have local ports, so as to keep my own ports > (either new applications or development versions of pre-existing > ports) in a separate place than the regular ports tree? basically, yes. But I have to admit that I never dug through the vast amount of makefiles. in each part of the installation process via ports, you can set some parameters, if you want. > > I haven't come across this in the handbook, but I may have missed it. > There may be other sources of documentation I've missed, too -- This is mostly make.conf and the whole concept of makefiles... There is nearly only digging through man pages or the mailing list archives. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)help
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