Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:44:33 -0400 From: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" <software@schmittnet.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Portinstall question Message-ID: <417B8791.20705@schmittnet.com>
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I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because there seems to be more guesswork involved that I expected there to be. How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under /usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among others are mysql323-server, mysql40-server, mysql41-server, and mysql50-server. In the Makefile for mysql41 it states PORTNAME?= mysql. But trying "portinstall mysql" or "portinstall mysql41" or "portinstall mysql41-server" all result in a message that the port doesn't exist. The command that works is "portinstall mysql-server", which I found with a basic google search, but I don't find that in the descriptions or Makefiles. Looking just at what is in the ports tree (or anywhere else on a 4.9 system), where would I properly find that name?
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