From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 22:53:03 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 87BDE106564A for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:53:03 +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 3521B8FC1D for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:53:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws6 with SMTP id 6so2277395vws.13 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:52:57 -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=fjRphErqmN7qMjlPq4tT16Ho16IJvzQfLqbume/PIoA=; b=FZiJ92bnqJUV7hfusdNwxeBU2gXsqC/5TvLKbhEQlztCMtNbunqRrBoX0XiGiT2kpB KX6basks4tcqkC8BOF7fWEwokRI1qHjOfix09iHWDXbJtW9J9HRHaEpUSWpuojtc4daL 4D2+DWiLLTJ9bk49+8w2XO64rSgyxgkROrin4= 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=JAWaWidOwrVDqRED3Xmu8SVzmThBSmvibq/UvGUMuCmFksVyeretS1rpd++hpAUWew bU5JNDL6yQNpna1X5hdJAIlEmxZlXONcMW5jrdK/5IoDm5sY8Oatvp+YwuwgmJryaiNU EfGPHXivZ0d2lOmJEQtmCZIE9b6tp8yLt3rJ8= Received: by 10.220.127.18 with SMTP id e18mr68053vcs.275.1278024777407; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s29sm6484vcr.47.2010.07.01.15.52.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2D1C46.9030301@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:52:54 -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: <945744.47563.qm@web52904.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <945744.47563.qm@web52904.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 22:53:03 -0000 On 7/1/10 5:58 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Glen Barber wrote: >> Once "ports" or "packages" are installed, >> there is no >> differentiation to the system. > > Interesting. If this is true, then I can just start upgrading my 'pkg_add' installed packages using ports and eventually they will all be converted over to 'make'. > > However, your comment seems to be in disagreement with online warnings of "do not mix 'pkg_add' packages with 'make' ports". > portmaster will deinstall and reinstall (and I believe rollback if something blows up). You are correct - don't mix ports and packages. > My original question's intention was to prevent me from having a system where some packages were installed with 'pkg_add' while others were installed with 'make'. > portmaster is probably the easiest road to get you there. Regards, -- Glen Barber