From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 21:31:50 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 128861065672 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:31:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75118FC13 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws6 with SMTP id 6so2172796vws.13 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:31:46 -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 :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LHZ7euvB5/i/KQ5wyKMkR6iiS5MQGK3NnVw9afgqsOM=; b=oMS+CZEtBnqUpCyH+W+qpW9JZeBvDJDVNewYs8CvZiKEZlWO80iAgFaeWfwUGeTPcS VmJjFBDrjJBKzxNFzseSvT7iXQ50xhT1Reim+3uCCDPTnKwaLzMelTQAmKgkd1hJ9XVz 5w/S24IBi7oJFTGnq3reTV1tYsoOGdqlWL7Yo= 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:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bsi8qPR/23greJ1esCaNt7OOXGTwzqiS6UXf1DFkfw1+XWVLvjJylZjIqbsle9v1HA pmUj5R0dAqW+xYDTO7Im+1aj4sFiI650IfMyqGaPSkmmb502m2mQyZz4HkiH2UyHCFwN o7eUI2fzrl13GW/Ub5IyBbxZWR8r2dnvWsLXY= Received: by 10.220.62.72 with SMTP id w8mr56055vch.201.1278019906417; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y7sm1911425vcx.22.2010.07.01.14.31.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2D093E.4090608@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:31:42 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Stankevitz References: <580252.53856.qm@web52905.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <580252.53856.qm@web52905.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Convert all packages to ports 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, 01 Jul 2010 21:31:50 -0000 Hi, Chris On 7/1/10 5:23 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > I setup my system using "packages". I have 675 "packages" installed and 0 "ports" installed. > > Q: Is there a simple way to replace each "package" with the locally compiled "port"? > > Ideally the procedure will not ask me any questions and will leave me with 0 installed "packages" and 675 installed "ports". > You might have a look at ports-mgmt/portmaster. It will prompt you for configuration settings before proceeding with building your ports. Regards, -- Glen Barber