building apxs aware packages from ports

[ET Support]

Hi Scot,

Thanks for the quick reply.

That's how I thought it worked too, however that does not appear to be the
case;

# pkg_add php4-4.4.1_3.tgz
pkg_add: could not find package apache-1.3.34_3 !

This is the same problem I ran into when I was using pkg_add -r ... it is
setting up php4 in a way that is not compatible with
apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25 (which is the apache version I am using). Maybe
I am not understanding something that needs to be done with make and the
dependencies? Or any other idea how to get around this problem?

Thanks,
Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: Scot Hetzel [mailto:swhetzel at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:49 PM
To: ET Support
Cc: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: building apxs aware packages from ports


On 1/9/06, ET Support <support at earthtecinc.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am in a situation where NFS is not available to me and I am trying to
> build apxs aware packages from a central ports tree for use on multiple
> virtual private servers... I know that when you do a 'make install' from
> ports, it goes out and detects what apxs is available, confirms version of
> apache based on that, and then builds ... how can you get the same apxs
> effect with 'make package' ? Or is there another alternative that would
> accomplish the same result?
>
As long as the virtual servers and the package building server have
the same version of Apache installed using 'make package' to create
the package (1), and then using pkg_add on the virtual servers to add
the package(s) should work.

NOTE: 1. you'll also need to ensure that all depending ports have
their packages built.

Scot
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