From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 13 08:32:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D59216A41F for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:32:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luktheluckyboy@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D932E43D45 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:32:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luktheluckyboy@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s1so896968nze for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:32:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Vs0s99tPvOgKlpimAE/sb07y2CzHLLfvQRRw6hUJVakHpn8+d8TqNUOy1ciZ+hUC9It92GifSzI5a73jlKXcZP845kvkx5q1jJiSC7HY5opsYGHyxsAWr4s/NxMQzNsuGoWlouCy781VEKyH47s+Ix83kEY52QwRbZQL3iTwlNQ= Received: by 10.65.124.17 with SMTP id b17mr4413778qbn; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:32:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.93.3 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:32:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7b1df2440511130032r3bfd3f62j@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:32:04 +0100 From: Luk van den Borne To: Michael Nottebrock In-Reply-To: <200511130847.40792.lofi@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <7b1df2440511111423u7495a644k@mail.gmail.com> <200511130847.40792.lofi@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amarok + postgreSQL version X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:32:05 -0000 2005/11/13, Michael Nottebrock : > On Friday, 11. November 2005 23:23, Luk van den Borne wrote: > > > I was wondering how (and if) I can select what version of postgreSQL > > is installed as a dep of amaroK. I'm experimenting with postgres 8.x, > > and I do not want to run two seperate database backends. By default, > > postgresql-client-7.4.9 is installed. > > FWIW, I'm pretty sure that you can make connections to a postgresql 8.x > database server using the 7.4 client just fine and you wouldn't need to r= un > separate backends, but anyway: > Oh, I did not realise that. I assumed the split was only made in case you only need a server or a client, but that the versions should match by all means. Thank you for enlightening me. > Set the WANT_PGSQL_VER variable to the number suffix of the postgresql po= rts > you want - /etc/make.conf is a good place for this: > > For a value use 'XY' from the postgresqlXY-client|server ports, for insta= nce > > WANT_PGSQL_VER=3D73 will adjust dependencies to postgresql73-client|serve= r > > and > > WANT_PGSQL_VER=3D80 will adjust dependencies to postgresql80-client|serve= r > Is this confguration directive documented somewhere? Of course I did some searching before posting on this mailing lists, but I was not able to find it. > > Note that this only works for ports - the binary packages available on th= e > FreeBSD ftp mirrors are always built against the default dependencies. > > -- > ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org > (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org > \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org > > >