From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 14:56:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D93210656D7 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F50F8FC1F for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so709300qyk.13 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:56:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FfsKFct6rwN+fD4z5M3ZOPT+DAW/32VhfIC3geVyNvM=; b=KJC7hiZ2410UTm671P73vRJAPBm4BsARf9l0adKKuE3OSioqLcCZOMlQ6fgNAv8qEZ Kj7UHzz6lJcK/JpnjbIzl2z/t8EgpHWeov0I8/+44NCh6Gzqk1s33kfWE3gpgC/Bqh9n 4B+v3GZIw5OonFxFvwWxhffbAp6Tlh21hDUmQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=cFndnkNW2Gi+XDgAGFG2yDtsZ/1VVlT9RTejxk08dC3Mwl/gr7LV5ezlt4OM3PnT/G u0LPcbY4a/kvxNpxneSFH6hCc0fcoOPkvbhQwfZ5mu9Rc1cejcHXqo9tcAUPjDpt2sKi nE3UmKPYQmWjBYWzZCB6BnWUhXtC6OVCWrgUU= Received: by 10.224.34.212 with SMTP id m20mr175740qad.397.1283439391232; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (75.97.128.170.res-cmts.sewb.ptd.net [75.97.128.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r38sm535245qcs.38.2010.09.02.07.56.28 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C7FBB1B.3090604@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:56:27 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Flecko References: <44hbi89peq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44hbi89peq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which specific version will be installed via pkg_add or via the port? 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: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:56:32 -0000 On 9/2/10 10:43 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ed Flecko writes: > >> When you're installing software via the pkg_add command or building >> from source, how do you what specific version you'll be installing >> BEFORE you actually install it? > > By reading the port's Makefile, in my case. > Other common options are > "make packagename" in the port's directory > http://www.freebsd.org/ports > http://www.freshports.org/ > Adding onto Lowell's response, you can see which version of the port was packaged at release time by logging directly into the FTP server: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD and take a look at what is in the package directory. For example: ls ports/${ARCH}/packages-X.Y-release/${CATEGORY}/${PORT} replacing ${ARCH}, ${CATEGORY}, and ${PORT} as appropriate, and replacing X and Y with your current release version (for example, 8.1). Regards, -- Glen Barber