local ports?
Olaf Hoyer
ohoyer at gaff.hhhr.ision.net
Mon Sep 1 10:08:33 PDT 2003
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Jacob Smullyan wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm coming to FreeBSD after using Gentoo Linux extensively for a year
> and half, so I'm wondering whether some features of Gentoo have
> equivalents in FreeBSD ports:
>
> 1. is it possible to specify a particular version of a port that you
> want to install, or is there only one version of a port available at
> any one time in a particular distribution branch?
Depends. In most cases, you have one version at a specific time, but
things like samba, there are the 2.2 and 3.0 simultaneously available.
There is the utility portupgrade, which also does a great job in
updating the ports tree, therefore keeping your apps up to date.
> 2. is it possible to have local ports, so as to keep my own ports
> (either new applications or development versions of pre-existing
> ports) in a separate place than the regular ports tree?
basically, yes.
But I have to admit that I never dug through the vast amount of
makefiles.
in each part of the installation process via ports, you can set some
parameters, if you want.
>
> I haven't come across this in the handbook, but I may have missed it.
> There may be other sources of documentation I've missed, too --
This is mostly make.conf and the whole concept of makefiles...
There is nearly only digging through man pages or the mailing list
archives.
HTH
Olaf
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