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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:44:49 -0400
From:      Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>
To:        "Eric Timme" <timothy@voidnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portupgrade and overwrite_base 
Message-ID:  <20020731234449.D7D0C11D@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Eric Timme" <timothy@voidnet.com>  of "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:34:03 CDT." <000b01c238e2$6020c580$0a00a8c0@rapture>

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> I haven't had any luck with google on the subject, so I thought I'd pose
> it here.  I'm a huge fan of portupgrade for maintaining ports on my
> machine, however, upon trying to install openssh-portable and openssl
> with: portupgrade -N openssh-portable -m '-DOPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE' I've
> noticed that it doesn't seem to take the overwrite directive to heart,
> installing instead in its default /usr/local area.  To rectify the
> situation I could manually install and then sync the pkgdb; however, I'd
> wager I'd have to do an uninstall and then another manual install the
> next time the port was upgraded.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Dunno. Have you tried creating 'Makefile.local' in the port directory with (e.g.):

OPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE=	yes

in it? Works for me for most ports (modulo the pesky ones that want to slam up an interactive dialog regardless).

Cheers,

AS


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