From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 15:24:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8058C9 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:24:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (dns1.vizion2000.net [62.49.197.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231B78FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (graphics [62.49.197.51]) by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A924119C26 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 06:00:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50E44F2C.6060601@vizion2000.net> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:15:56 -0800 From: David Southwell Organization: Vision Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Experience with portshaker Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:24:54 -0000 Best wishes for the new year. I decided I needed texlive so I installed portshaker with the intention of adding texlive to my ports tree. After installing portshaker and running portshaker -v I found the existing ports tree /usr/ports/**** deleted and portshaker had created a new directory /var/cache/portshaker with the following sub directories: bsd_sharp freebsd_texlive freebsd_texlive_releng ports The /var/cache/portshaker/ports was empty /bsd-sharp contained a ports hierarchy but with a very limited range of ports within the hierarchy. freebsd_texlive contained .svn , Tools, print freebsd_texlive_releng contained .svn, MOVED, print I was expecting the default portshaker.conf to have retained the original /usr/ports/ tree and put the texlive ports in /usr/ports/prints - however finding my original tree deleted was an unexpected outcome. Would that be due to a run error on an incorrectly configured postshaker.conf? 1. How should portshaker.conf be set for an appropriate configuration 2. I have now rebuilt the /usr/ports/ 3. Have not deleted /var/cache/portshaker/* How to proceed now? Many thanks in advance for advice. David -- David Southwell ARPS AFIAP Photographic Arts Trained & experienced competition judge, mentor, trainer, lecturer, Advanced digital techniques, international project photography