Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:28:00 -0500 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dino_vliet@yahoo.com Subject: Re: install gamin in stead of fam Message-ID: <200811210128.01370.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <661300.86973.qm@web51109.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <661300.86973.qm@web51109.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On November 20, 2008 06:28:21 pm Dino Vliet wrote: <snip> > The approaches I can think of are: > > 1) get rid of fam and everything that requires it with pkg_deinstall -R > fam* , then adjust /etc/make.conf to have WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin and > reinstall all above packages one by one > > 2) write a shell script to automate all those steps above > > > So my question boils down to this, am I on the good track? Are there > other alternatives (or caveats) > > Thanks Ater you set WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin, you should be able to perform portupgrade -fo devel/gamin fam This will replace the software and the appropriate dependancies. I did this very same thing but in reverse, gamin->fam :) HTH Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkmVPEACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qCxkgCfVatJyU/kBEpGrwVBTqfKqz1f +t4AniT1K+d4H6Sq0pVb7brj9kWKiUTL =vAoC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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