From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 21:39:13 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 4D3C41065676 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:39:13 +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 F0E908FC20 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws6 with SMTP id 6so2182351vws.13 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:39:09 -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=bGzTMfg7TIi+V2/aNfqbcqXUPkSjl7P9UyGhCvf0ub8=; b=JNF1ltyuLNrTQRA4sY4MbgztuS8TLN4pHGz6fQVfSzigQ9Xxa7DMKC4licDuIIn2z+ WkqW7bwHsBbJfKH0AXU36ayulHeTLgU/kVE+NJs7lr4+iJBTi20lO9MKaUygLLcoA22t yUyqeAzeahjL0bL/Ea99kQP1UG3Gc58yt/S1Y= 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=oRn8b35K/V8wfpFaM2yzPp9cWqjdPbtM+tHjq5xOyJnNprzsP3wF3XHESo5z9Ij5Ex YSxCRFehCjfRmqlq3jpobSpd6EyGVNzEgSMf+zvjGpEoTmUjc00wlupzmj5/BVP7qX3U xnatUBKmcLwupu0xCnjuYs0nRFNOqqClc030w= Received: by 10.220.62.72 with SMTP id w8mr61868vch.212.1278020349485; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:39:09 -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 k8sm5461373vcr.6.2010.07.01.14.39.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2D0AFA.9090502@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:39:06 -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> <4C2D093E.4090608@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2D093E.4090608@gmail.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 21:39:13 -0000 On 7/1/10 5:31 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > 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. > I just want to add, that this is necessary when upgrading your existing software. Once "ports" or "packages" are installed, there is no differentiation to the system. The difference is that packages (installed via pkg_add(1)) are built once, when a new FreeBSD -RELEASE is out. Regards, -- Glen Barber