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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:25:58 +0100
From:      _1126 <lists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] weird error messages with various ports
Message-ID:  <20140127152558.GA50946@elfsechsundzwanzig.de>
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:45:41PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:17:42 +0100
> _1126 <lists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:44:40PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > > That leads me to another question: Is there a way to do this while
> > > > preserving the configurations I made to the ports?
> > > > 
> > > if you have a normal installation, just move /use/ports
> > > to /usr/ports.whatever and create an empty /usr/ports.
> > > 
> > > You can then checkout the ports tree with svn.
> > 
> > I did just that. 
> > 
> > But it seems to me that I have now lost (aka 'it is in a different
> > copy of the ports tree) all the configuration changes I did to various
> > ports, like enabling patches in mail/mutt or which video drivers
> > x11/xorg should install... Is there a way to copy those from one copy
> > of a ports tree to another?
> > 
> > Or am I just overlooking something here? ;)
> 
> you should have them in the other ports tree named /usr/ports.whatever

Yes, I do. 

But imagine, I want to switch to the svn-style update of my ports tree
and ditch portsnap because of situations like today. Can I copy my configurations?

I hope you don't mind me asking.

Christian.



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