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> In-Reply-To: <20140127224541.48885efb@X220.alogt.com> References: <20140127120519.Horde.zk6gGzrJZ8n-kUHavzPiTw1@webmail.df.eu> <20140127191858.78a3fa5d@X220.alogt.com> <20140127114919.GA66024@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127200326.026e6c35@X220.alogt.com> <20140127121011.GA68344@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127203002.37fbb036@X220.alogt.com> <20140127133508.GA9272@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127214440.4075ae45@X220.alogt.com> <20140127141742.GB9272@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> <20140127224541.48885efb@X220.alogt.com>
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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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