portupgrade "---> Backing up the old version"

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 03:26:25AM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> 
> 
> kris at obsecurity.org wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:58:20AM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> >
> >>While using portupgrade I noticed before it deinstalls the old port it 
> >>says something like "--->  Backing up the old version" and then it goes 
> >>on deinstalling and installing the new version.  Where does this backup 
> >>go?  I looked at the man page and it says something like /var/tmp but I 
> >>went into that directory and there is nothing in there relating to a 
> >>port back!  Does portupgrade delete that backup after the successful 
> >>install of the new version?
> >
> >
> >Yes.
> >
> >Kris
> 
> I'm running out of space in /var, how do you specify an alternate path 
> for that backup?

TMPDIR

Kris
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