From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 12:09:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5293216A400 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:09:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from grog.secure-computing.net (grog.secure-computing.net [209.240.66.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073CD13C48A for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:09:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (hq.secure-computing.net [209.240.66.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by grog.secure-computing.net (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2RBGujx003670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:16:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) In-Reply-To: <003301c7702e$9375b5c0$0400020a@mickey> References: <005d01c76fdd$e67f33a0$0400020a@mickey> <023801c76fe6$0f78e190$0a0aa8c0@rivendell><008f01c77007$cfca1d80$0400020a@mickey> <460899C7.5040301@daleco.biz> <003301c7702e$9375b5c0$0400020a@mickey> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3DA7AD9F-4CCA-4BB4-8C6F-B1A8B430C28D@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:09:40 -0500 To: "Don O'Neil" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Bind & OpenSSL on 6.1-Stable/Release 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: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:09:47 -0000 On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Don O'Neil wrote: > If they are 'ports' specificly built for FreeBSD, shouldn't the port > maintainer make them install like the originals were? Makes sense > to me.... > > Or maybe the original install/release needs to be changed to > install the > same as the port. > > It's a pain having to debug where everything went, change config > files, > update startup scripts, make symlinks, etc... When if it were Linux > a simple > RPM install would update it and I'd be done with it. > > Just my observations. The ports tree installs things to the /usr/local/ prefix, to help you keep your ports and base system separate. This is a normal behavior, and has been normal for a lot longer than you have been using FreeBSD. I apologize, but I doubt the developers are going to change the standard behavior just because you got confused the first time you tried to replace a base system component. Look here in section 4.5.2.1: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports- using.html ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks